Mailing List
"If it hasn't happened in an email list, it hasn't happened," -- Open Source axiom
Mailing Lists are the lifeblood of the Xen Project. If you intend to actively participate in the development of the Xen Project, you will need to become familiar with the mailing lists and the mailing list etiquette:
- Please post in plain text (i.e. not HTML), word-wrapped to somewhere around 72 characters.
- Please don't top-post.
- Please start a new thread for a new bug (don't just reply to a random email from the list).
- Please don't email bugs directly to Xen Project developers. Keep the conversation on the list where other people (and search engines) can see it.
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Mailing List Usage
Xen Project mailing lists have a web as well as an e-mail interface.
- Send an e-mail command to mylist-request@lists.xenproject.org (mylist may for example be xen-announce) with one of the following commands in the subject line. Common commands are help, subscribe and unsubscribe.
- Go to http://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mylist (mylist may for example be xen-announce) and use the web interface to subscribe, unsubscribe or log into the list management interface.
General Mailing Lists
xen-announce
Announcements related to the project. These may be release annoucements, security advisories, announcements related to events. This is a low volume list, with about 1-2 posts per month.
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xen-users
This list is for those using and installing the Xen Project software.
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xen-api
A discussion list for the XCP and Xen API projects, developing a protocol, data-model, and language bindings for remote and local management of Xen-based systems. The list is both for developers and users.
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Developer Mailing Lists
xen-devel
A discussion list for the Xen Project developer community. Please do not use this list for technical support queries.
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xen-arm
Discussion list for the ARM PV port
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xen-api
A discussion list for the XCP and Xen API projects, developing a protocol, data-model, and language bindings for remote and local management of Xen-based systems. The list is both for developers and users.
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xen-changelog
This is a receive-only list to which details of changesets to the Xen Hypervisor Git repositories are sent.
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Special Mailing Lists
advisory-board
A discussion list for members of the Xen Project Advisory Board. The list is invite only and not currently archived. However, the Advisory Board will publish meeting minutes on the wiki and post the minutes to developer mailing lists.
private
This list is for maintainers of all Xen teams, and key developers that have been invited by maintainers. This list is intended to be used only when privacy implications or similar prevent usage of a public list. Example usage may be to let other community members know of absence (due to holidays, maternity/paternity leave, etc.) and to arrange cover. Another example may be to ask other team members for advice on how to respond to a difficult situation in the community. Any conversations that should have been started on a public list, will be forwarded to an appropriate public list.
This list is invite only and is not archived. Community members can subscribe, but approval in line with Mailing List Conventions is required.
publicity
This is a list to coordinate content for the Xen Project blog, articles in the open source and Linux press, other media, press activities, to coordinate attendance and submissions for open source and industry events and anything else to promote the Xen Project. The list is open for people in the community who care about promoting the Xen Project. The list is also archived.
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security@xenproject.org
This e-mail alias is intended for reporting security vulnerabilities in Xen Project software (this also covers the situation where an existing published changeset is retrospectively found to be a security fix). List membership is restricted to members of the Xen Project Security Response Team and thus invite only and obviously there is no public archive. For more information on how the Xen Project handles security vulnerabilities, see the Xen Security Problem Response Process.