Alpine Linux:Mailing lists: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 23:56, 27 August 2023

Mailing List Archives A Web listing of the mailing list archives in a searchable format. Since the mailing list is hosted on Alpine Linux, we are using mlmmj for the mailing list, hypermail for translation into html.

(Please don't top-post to the list as it makes the archives more or less useless.)

Subscribing

Note: "<mailing-list>" can be any of the listed mailing lists below or at https://lists.alpinelinux.org/

Send an email to <mailing-list>+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Wait for a reply from the <mailing-list>+help@lists.alpinelinux.org asking you to confirm your email address
Send a reply to the given "Reply-To" address
Receive a subscription confirmation from <mailing-list>+help@lists.alpinelinux.org with the subject line Welcome to <mailing-list>@lists.alpinelinux.org

There's also a button for subscribing in each mailing list's web UI, e.g. on ~alpine/users which will open your mail client for you.

alpine-announce

Low-volume mailing list for release announcements (new versions of Alpine).

Archives: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/announce
Subscribe: ~alpine/announce+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Unsubscribe: ~alpine/announce+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Help: ~alpine/announce+help@lists.alpinelinux.org

alpine-users

Mailing list for general user support.

Archives: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users
Subscribe: ~alpine/users+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Unsubscribe: ~alpine/users+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Help: ~alpine/users+help@lists.alpinelinux.org

alpine-devel

Mailing list for Alpine Linux development.

Archives: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel
Subscribe: ~alpine/devel+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Unsubscribe: ~alpine/devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
Help: ~alpine/devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org

Other mailing lists

alpine-aports

Active mailing list with patches for packages (proposed for incorporating into aports package pools).

alpine-infra

Active mailing list discussing Alpine web infrastructure.

apk-tools

Active mailing lis discussing the Alpine Package Keeper (APK)

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-= Lists =
+'''[https://lists.alpinelinux.org/ Mailing List Archives]''' A Web listing of the mailing list archives in a searchable format. Since the mailing list is hosted on Alpine Linux, we are using [http://mlmmj.org/ mlmmj] for the mailing list, [https://www.hypermail-project.org/ hypermail] for translation into html.
-We have an email list available for developers.<BR>
-If you want to contact the developers, please send a email to eg. [mailto:alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org] (or some other available list).
-(Please don't [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting top-post] to the list as it makes the archives more or less useless.)
+(Please don't [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting top-post] to the list as it makes the archives more or less useless.)
-=== Available lists ===
-* '''[http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/ alpine-devel]''' ''(General alpine discussions)''
-* '''[http://lists.alpinelinux.org/acf/ acf]''' ''(ACF-related discussions)''
-=== How To ===
+See also https://alpinelinux.org/community/.
-A more detailed HowTo is received by using the 'help' functionality described below.
-==== Help ====
+== Subscribing ==
-If you want some help with some list, you can send a 'help' request to the list, and you receive a e-mail with instructions and help.<BR>
+Note: "<mailing-list>" can be any of the listed mailing lists below or at [https://lists.alpinelinux.org/ https://lists.alpinelinux.org/]
-This is done by sending a empty mail to this email address ('acf' could be changed to some other available list)
+# Send an email to <mailing-list>+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org
-  [mailto:acf+help@lists.alpinelinux.org acf+help@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+# Wait for a reply from the <mailing-list>+help@lists.alpinelinux.org asking you to confirm your email address
-==== Subscribe ====
+# Send a reply to the given "Reply-To" address
-Susbscribing is done by sending a empty mail to this email address ('acf' could be changed to some other available list)
+# Receive a subscription confirmation from <mailing-list>+help@lists.alpinelinux.org with the subject line Welcome to <mailing-list>@lists.alpinelinux.org
-  [mailto:acf+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org acf+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
-==== Unsubscribe ====
+There's also a button for subscribing in each mailing list's web UI, e.g. on [https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users ~alpine/users] which will open your mail client for you.
-If you no longer want to be part of a list, send a empty mail to this email address ('acf' could be changed to some other available list)
-  [mailto:acf+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org acf+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+== alpine-announce ==
-=== Other Notes ===
+Low-volume mailing list for release announcements (new versions of Alpine).
-Seeing that we only have a few users at this point, there is no alpine-users list. We'll set one up in due time.
+;Archives
+:https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/announce
+;Subscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/announce+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/announce+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Unsubscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/announce+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/announce+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Help
+:[mailto:~alpine/announce+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/announce+help@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+== alpine-users ==
+Mailing list for general user support.
+;Archives
+:https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users
+;Subscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/users+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/users+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Unsubscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/users+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/users+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Help
+:[mailto:~alpine/users+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/users+help@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+== alpine-devel ==
+Mailing list for Alpine Linux development.
+;Archives
+:https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel
+;Subscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/devel+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/devel+subscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Unsubscribe
+:[mailto:~alpine/devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+;Help
+:[mailto:~alpine/devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ~alpine/devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org]
+== Other mailing lists ==
+* [https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/aports alpine-aports]
+:Active mailing list with patches for packages (proposed for incorporating into aports package pools).
+* [https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/infra alpine-infra]
+:Active mailing list discussing Alpine web infrastructure.
+* [https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/apk-tools apk-tools]
+:Active mailing lis discussing the Alpine Package Keeper (APK)
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