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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.
You may also be interested in our official @TheASF Twitter account, or the official ASF Blog.
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| Archives: | Raw gzipped mbox files Web archives archives |
| Getting help with the list: | [email protected] |
The [email protected] 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.
You may also be interested in our official @ApacheCon Twitter account, or the official ApacheCon Conferences blog.
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| Archives: | Available back to 13 October 1999. Send a message to [email protected] for information about accessing the archives. |
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The [email protected] 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)
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| Archives: | Web archives |
| Getting help with the list: | [email protected] |
The [email protected] 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
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| Archives: | Web archives |
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The [email protected] mailing list is used by the participants in the
Apache Software Foundation to discuss community-related foundation-wide
topics. Participation in this list is open to everyone, and public archives
are available.
This replaces the old [email protected]mailing list, disabled in 2014.
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| Archives: | Web archives |
The [email protected] 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.
The [email protected] mailing list is used to discuss
foundation-wide issues relating to software distribution repositories, including
our Apache Maven repository of other software releases. Participation in this list is open to everyone, and public archives
are available.
| Volume: | Moderate |
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| Archives: | Web archives |
The [email protected] 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.
| Volume: | Moderate |
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| Unsubscription address: | [email protected] |
| Archives: | Raw gzipped mbox files Web archives |
