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Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists
We welcome you to join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or
ideas about Apache OpenOffice.
Note: These are public mailing lists and anything posted to these lists is archived
and is visible to the public, indexed by search engines, etc. Posts can only
be removed in extraordinary circumstances, in accordance with Apache's
Public Forum
Archive Policy
Using Mailing Lists
Participation Guidelines
Users Mailing List
API Mailing List
Marketing Mailing List
Announce Mailing List
Development Mailing List
Volunteer Mailing List
Documentation Mailing List
Quality Assurance (QA) Mailing List
Localization Mailing List
Commits Mailing List
Issues Mailing List
Native Language (non-English) Mailing Lists
Legacy OpenOffice.org Lists
Using Mailing Lists
A mailing list is a way to share information and coordinate with other project members.
When you send an e-mail to a mailing list it is forwarded to all other subscribers to
that mailing list.
Every OpenOffice mailing list has a list address, of the form:
xyz
@openoffice.apache.org, where you
replace "
xyz
" with the actual list name
such as "dev" or "qa" or "marketing".
Basic Operations
There are three basic operations you should know about:
To
send
an e-mail to the mailing list, and have it forwarded to all other
subscribers, send an e-mail to the list's address,
xyz
@openoffice.apache.org.
To
to the mailing list, so you start receiving all posts to the mailing
list, send an e-mail to
xyz
-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
. You will then receive a
confirmation e-mail. Once you respond to the confirmation e-mail you are subscribed.
Please keep the initial e-mail you receive from
xyz
-help@openoffice.apache.org
as it
contains helpful information you may need in the future.
To
unsubscribe
from the mailing list, so you stop receiving all posts to the
mailing list, send an e-mail to
xyz
-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
. You will then
receive a confirmation e-mail. Once you respond to the confirmation e-mail you are
unsubscribed.
NOTE: Please do not send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to the mailing list itself
xyz
@openoffice.apache.org). You must send these requests to the special
xyz
-subscribe and
xyz
-unsubscribe addresses.
List Moderators
Each mailing list at OpenOffice has at least two human moderators. If you need
additional help with a mailing list in any way including reporting inappropriate
behavior, you can e-mail the list moderator at
xyz
-owner@openoffice.apache.org
where
xyz
is a list name. Example:
qa-owner@openoffice.apache.org
Participation Guidelines
We ask all mailing list participants to observe
these conduct guidelines
Specifically note the request "Use sensible and concise e-mail subject headings". On our
high-traffic lists, especially dev, we encourage the use of e-mail subject tags that
indicate the topic of your post. Consistent use of such tags makes it more likely that
your post will be read by subscribers most interested in that topic. It also facilitates
sorting and filtering by e-mail inbox rules.
Some subject tags often seen on dev include:
[www] for posts related to the website
[Repo] for posts related to the source code repository
[download] for posts related to the release download and mirroring infrastructure
[API] for posts related to API specific topics
[EXT] for posts related to Extension specific topics
Other useful topic tags can be found by observing traffic on the list or by looking at
the list archives.
In addition to the topic subject tags, there are also tags used to indicate a request:
[DISCUSS] indicates a rough idea is being floated, and input is welcome
[PROPOSAL] indicates a specific proposal is being made, and often that Lazy
Consensus is being sought.
[VOTE] indicates that a formal vote is being called. This is rare.
Note: it is common for a topic tag and an action tag to be combined, e.g.:
[PROPOSAL][Repo] Migration of legacy repository to SVN
[DISCUSS][download] What are our options of mirroring legacy releases?
Finally, please keep in mind that all of the above mailing lists are public
and any post you make will likely be archived by a variety of services. The Apache
policy for expunging posts can be found
here
but this will only apply
to Apache mail archives, not archives from other services such as Gmane or Markmail.
Users Mailing List (Public)
This list is for users, for questions about OpenOffice, for feature requests, for
discussions about the product and project, etc.
Subscribe:
users-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
users@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
users-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Markmail
Nabble
Mail Archive
API Mailing List (Public)
This list is for application developers and other interested in scripting, macros or
developing OpenOffice extensions.
Subscribe:
api-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
api@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
api-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Markmail
Mail Archive
Marketing Mailing List (Public)
This is where the community discusses marketing, branding, communications, event
planning and related activities.
Subscribe:
marketing-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
marketing@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
marketing-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Markmail
Mail Archive
Announce Mailing List
Subscribe to this list to receive notice about new releases and other important news
from the project.
Subscribe:
announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
announce-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Markmail
Mail Archive
Note:
Only Apache OpenOffice committers may post to the Announce mailing list.
And, you must use your Apache id and domain to post - for example, send using
myapacheid@apache.org
Development Mailing List (Public)
This is where the project community hangs out. This list is used to coordinate
activities and ensure we are all pulling in the same direction. This is a high
traffic list, with an average of 30 posts/day.
Subscribe:
dev-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
dev@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Nabble
Markmail
(incomplete)
Documentation Mailing List (Public)
This list is for discussing and developing the OpenOffice documentation.
Subscribe:
doc-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
doc@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
doc-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Markmail
(incomplete)
QA Mailing List (Public)
The list is for bug reports, quality assurance for release, beta tests, manual test,
automated tests, etc. You should subscribe (initiate the procedure by sending an
empty e-mail to the address below, then follow the instructions you will receive by
e-mail) if you don't want to miss important announcements.
Subscribe:
qa-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
qa@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
qa-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Markmail
(incomplete)
Localization Mailing List (Public)
The list is discussion of translation and other aspects of localization, for both
the OpenOffice product, as well as documentation and the website.
Subscribe:
L10N-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
L10N@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
L10N-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Markmail
Mail Archive
Commits Mailing List
This is where the community receives automated notifications of any changes to the
Apache OpenOffice code and documentation. This is a moderate traffic list, with an
average of 10 posts/day.
Subscribe:
commits-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
commits-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Markmail
(incomplete)
Issues Mailing List
This is where the community receives automated notifications of all issues that were
created or modified in Bugzilla. Currently this is a moderate traffic list, with an
average of 20 posts/day and will increase in the future.
Subscribe:
issues-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
issues-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
legacy
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Markmail
(incomplete)
Volunteer Mailing List (Public)
This list is for welcoming new contributors. It coordinates the activities for new
people and tries to help to find the right part. This is a low traffic list.
Subscribe:
volunteer-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Post (after subscription):
volunteer@openoffice.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
volunteer-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
Apache Archives:
current
Third-party Archives:
Mail Archive
Native Language (non-English) Mailing Lists
The project has several mailing lists for discussion about OpenOffice in native
(non-English) languages.
Information about available Native Language mailing lists can be found in the page
describing
native language resources
Legacy OpenOffice.org Lists
As of March 16th, 2012 the legacy OpenOffice.org mailing lists have been disabled.
Archived posts from these mailing lists are archived on
MarkMail
At the same time the legacy e-mail forwarding agent for openoffice.org e-mail address has
also been shutdown.
If you have been directed to this page from an e-mail bounce notification, the following
guide might be useful for directing your post to an appropriate new mailing list for
the OpenOffice project:
users@openoffice.org
posts should be sent to
users@openoffice.apache.org
discuss@openoffice.org
posts should be sent to
users@openoffice.apache.org
dev@openoffice.org
posts should be sent to
dev@openoffice.apache.org
securityteam@openoffice.org
posts should be sent to
security@openoffice.apache.org
project marketing related posts should be sent to
marketing@openoffice.apache.org
requests to use trademarks should be sent to
dev@openoffice.apache.org
anything of a confidential nature should be sent to
private@openoffice.apache.org
support questions related to the OpenOffice product should go to
users@openoffice.apache.org
website related questions should go to
dev@openoffice.apache.org
questions on volunteering for the project should go to
dev@openoffice.apache.org
press queries should go to
press@openoffice.apache.org
For any topic not covered by the above, send your post to:
dev@openoffice.apache.org