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Whether you are a user looking for help with the IDE or a
developer discussing aspects of the next release, these
mailing lists are where it all happens. To subscribe,
unsubscribe, browse archives, or for more info on individual
lists, please follow the appropriate links below.
Top-Level ListsNew users start here! Including high-level announcments,
the general user mailing list (nbusers), the NetBeans development list
(nbdev), the user interface list (nbui) and the OpenAPIs list ().
Build Process Lists : Automated output
from the continuous build process, and tests for API changes.
Bug and CVS notification lists : Several
types of bug and cvs lists. Traffic consists of only automated
notifications of CVS check-ins or bug status changes.
Per-Module lists : Any other per-module
mailing lists. Currently including projects, javacvs, and netbrowser.
Licensing discussions :
See the license page for pointers on where to discuss the license.
Which lists should I subscribe to?!
Of course which lists you subscribe to depends on exactly what level of
interest and involvement you have in NetBeans. This is different for
everyone, and will almost certainly change as you find traffic on a
particular list is not relevant for you. Here's a rough guide to start with -
If you're interested in using NetBeans, at a minimum subscribe to
nbannounce, and nbusers.
If you're interested in developing NetBeans, you probably want to
subscribe to nbdev and .
If you're developing something with a user interface, subscribe to
nbui.
If you're heavily involved in development of the IDE, you might
also be interested in the remaining lists - the build lists, bugs and
cvs.
NNTP access
Alternatively, if you prefer USENET news to mailing lists,
all top-level lists are gated to news - posts to the lists are
propagated to the newsgroups, and vice versa. Point your
newsreader at news.gmane.org.
Note that the group names are not exactly the same as the mailing
list names (to match Gmane conventions), though most are quite
obvious. Use your client to search for "netbeans" groups -
eg gmane.comp.java.ide.netbeans.users.
Note : SourceCast (the application that hosts netbeans.org)
does not include NNTP support, so this service is supplied by the
free mailing list to NNTP gateway Gmane.
Unsusbscribing
Unsubscribe links are included on each of the list pages above,
right beside the subscribe links. If you're having trouble :
Don't mail "unsubscribe me" or "help" to the list you're trying
to unsubscribe from!
While everyone's input is always welcome, the top-level
lists are quite high-volume, and putting a little effort into
messages you post will mean the difference between getting a
response or getting ignored. Please try to follow
general common sense list etiquette when posting! A few
tips :
Don't post the same message to more than one list - pick a list
and post just there. If it is the wrong place someone will let you
know and suggest an alternate;
Do not reply to a message and change the subject completely, since
threaded mailreaders show it in a weird place; send a new message when
starting a new thread
Please trim the original text in your reply. Include the
very minimum of the original text that directly relates to
your reply. Worst is the habit of making a one line response
that is followed by the original e-mail in its entirety.
Similarly, if you are making a point by point reply, where
you include some original text and then follow it with your
reply, and then do the same with the next point, please make
it easy to find your replies. If you've included 40 lines of
original text and followed it by a one line reply, then go on
to another 40 lines of original text, it is very hard to find
your reply in there. If you must include the full 40 lines of
quoted text, perhaps add a blank line after it before your reply.
Add, perhaps, two blank lines after your reply before
continuing on with original text again.
Please do not use styled text in your e-mail. Your choice
of font, font size, font colour, etc. can make your e-mail
virtually unreadable for others! Please just use plain text
unless there is a compelling reason otherwise. If you simply
do not style your text, everyone's e-mail readers will style
it the way they want, ensuring it will be readable and pleasing
to the eye everywhere.
Similarly, please don't send HTML messages! Readability,
the size of messages, and security are just a few of the
reasons not to send HTML mail. A good description of these
and other problems, as well as instructions on how to disable
HTML mail in many common mail clients is available at
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
HTML attachments are fine of course!
A note about mail filters
As several of the lists are high volume, a few conventions are
in use to aid sorting and filtering. The mailing list software automatically
prefixes the Subject: fields of all NetBeans lists with the name of the
mailing list, so for example msgs to the nbdev list have subjects beginning
with [nbdev].
It is also common for list subscribers to add some kind of topical label to
the subject field, like [Stable3.1 Release], to track different, but
related, threads. This is of course entirely up to the individual.
