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Mailing List Archives

Archives for public mailing lists are available at a number of locations, including:

• Apache Mail Archives

• MarkMail

• MARC

• mail-archive.com

Foundation Mailing Lists

• Apache News and Announcements

• Conference Announcements list

• Community discussion

• Infrastructure assistance

• Legal discussions

Project Mailing Lists

Links to project-specific mailing list info can be found on the project resources page.

Apache News and Announcements

The Apache Announcements list contains news and announcements about the foundation and its projects. Announcements of major software releases, new projects, and other important news are included. Messages are posted only by the Foundation; there is no discussion.

Apache Conference Announcements

The announce@ApacheCon.Com mailing list is used by the ASF conference planning committee to make announcements about conferences, conventions, and tradeshows in which the Foundation is participating. Messages are posted only by the Foundation; there is no discussion.

Apache Conference Planning and Discussions

The apachecon-discuss@apache.org mailing list is used for discussions on the future of ApacheCon, and future ApacheCons. (Discussions for current and upcoming ApacheCons which have been approved occur on other lists)

The small-events-discuss@apache.org mailing list is used for discussions on future small events, such as BarCampApaches, Meetups, Retreats and Hackathons. It is used for discussing and planning small events that are not yet ready to seek final approval

Foundation Community Mailing List

The community@apache.org mailing list is used by the participants in the Apache Software Foundation to discuss general topics of interest to the foundation. Participation in this list is open to everyone. Public archives are available of this list.

Foundation Infrastructure Mailing List

The infrastructure@apache.org mailing list is used by the Foundation's infrastructure team to discuss issues concerning the operation of the overall Apache Software Foundation systems. Participation in this list is only available to committers of the Apache Software Foundation. Non-committers may send mail to this address to report problems with ASF systems, however see the notes about system status before you do. See also more information about other infra lists.

Foundation Legal Discussion Mailing List

The legal-discuss@apache.org is a forum for questions (even FAQs) that have a legal aspect to them. These questions may concern (for example) licensing, third party packages, contributor agreement questions and trademark issues. This list will build into an ad-hoc knowledge base about those thorny legal issues that most commonly effect Apache projects. Please keep speculation to a minimum and avoid making authoritative statements without genuine knowledge of the subject.

Volunteers willing to codify discussions into a FAQ will be welcomed.