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Castor Mailing ListsMailing Lists Announcements User mailing list Development mailing list SCM mailing list user vs. dev Interaction and acronyms Acronyms [XML] or [JDO] Guidelines A note about HTML formatted e-mail Mailing ListsAnnouncements
This list is a read-only low volume (possibly about 1 message per week) mailing list for special announcements related to Castor, such as new releases. User mailing list
This list is a moderate volume (between 10 and 25 messages a day) mailing list for the users of Castor. It should be used to discuss general questions related to the use of Castor, problems you are having getting Castor to work, etc.
Archives:
Development mailing list
This list is a moderate volume (possibly less than 15 messages a day) mailing list for developers working on or wanting to work on Castor itself (not developers merely working with Castor), for code patches to Castor to be posted (please use diff -u format), and for general Castor questions. Note this is NOT for general Castor questions like "Why isn't Castor working for me?" - please ask those sorts of questions on the user mailing list (after reading the FAQ first, of course). This list will be used by the main committers to discuss the following
items:
Please subscribe to this mailing list, as we believe that feedback from the user community on many of these issues is essential for the progress of the project.
Archives:
SCM mailing list
This read-only list sends out notification messages detailing any change made to the Subversion (SVN) repository where all the source code and libraries are stored for development purposes. The average user probably doesn't need to subscribe to this list. Archives:
user vs. devPlease use above mailing lists for what they are intended for. Please use the descriptions above to target your message to the correct mailing list. By all means, please avoid cross-posting messages to both lists, as it will decrease the quality of service we would like to offer.
Interaction and acronymsAs we believe that an effective interaction with the user community is essential for Castor to progress as a project, we have decided to establish a slightly more structured approach in dealing with many of the issues we and you encounter. AcronymsEspecially on (but not necessarily restricted to) 'dev', we will be much more interactive about many of the issues mentioned above. As such, we have decided to structure our messages more thoroughly, and have come up with the following set of acronyms to show our intention:
[XML] or [JDO]Please prefix your messages to all mailing list with either [XML] or [JDO]. This will help us to improve the time it takes us to react to your needs. Having said that, all committers will monitor both areas. GuidelinesThe following are some general "common-sense" guidelines for using the mailing lists:
Most people are already following these guidelines. To those people, we
thank you. For those of you who are not ... please read carefully.
Please be kind and respectful to your fellow castor users. Please refrain from using words and phrases like URGENT, IMPORTANT,
MY WIFE WILL LEAVE ME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND, etc, in the subject line
of your postings. Or even in the body of the message for that matter. You may think that things which are URGENT, or IMPORTANT to you,
are just as urgent and important to everyone else reading this
list. You'd be surprised at just how wrong an assumption like
that can be. Please use meaningful subject lines. "Newbie Question",
is not meaningful what-so-ever. Please provide necessary information, where applicable.
Statements like, "I receive a NullPointerException when
using Castor, what's up with that?", are not very helpful,
add unnecessary traffic on the list, and will probably
never get an answer. As a follow on to #3, when submitting examples, please try
to submit the smallest possible example which demonstrates
the problem. Short examples are easier to follow and will
get quicker responses from developers or other users than
long examples with lots of extraneous code/data. Please read the documentation before posting. It doesn't take
long and it will save us valuable time from having to answer
questions that are already covered in the docs. Please check the mail archives before posting. Many questions
on this list have already been answered before. Please refrain from posting confidential information. Once an
e-mail is sent to the list, it goes out to all subscribers,
including archive engines. We cannot remove or delete messages
sent to the list. Once sent they are available for the public
to see. If you are unsure about what is confidential or not,
check with your manager, supervisor, or the person in charge
at your company. If you are going on vacation. Please enjoy yourself. We
really want you to have fun and get some much needed
rest and relaxation. With that being said and to be
perfectly honest none of us really want to receive your
automated vacation responses. So please either add a filter
to your vacation response so it doesn't get sent to the
list or users posting to the list, or simply remove yourself
from the list before you go, and add yourself back when
you return. Please refrain from sending emails to this mailing list formatted
as text/html. Please start a new thread per topic/question. As a result of this, please
avoid 'hijacking' existing threads. A note about HTML formatted e-mailAs stated in the guildelines above (see #10), please refrain from sending email to these mailing lists formatted as 'text/html' under all circumstances. Amongst other things, it complicates life for users not working on Windows and decreases usability of the mailing list archives, as it prevents text searches from returning useful results. Additional information why we consider HTML emails to be avoided can be found here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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