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Author: buildbot
Date: Fri Aug 12 14:46:57 2011
New Revision: 794268

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     <h3 id="openofficeorg_mailing_lists">OpenOffice.org Mailing Lists</h3>
 <p>We welcome you to join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or
 ideas about Apache OpenOffice.org.</p>
-<p>We ask all mailing list participants to observe <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html">these guidelines</a>.</p>
+<h3 id="participation_guidelines">Participation Guidelines</h3>
+<p>We ask all mailing list participants to observe <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html">these guidelines</a>. </p>
+<p>Specifically note the request "Use sensible and concise email subject headings".  On our high-traffic
+lists, especially ooo-dev, we encourage the use of email subject tags that indicate
+the topic of your post.  Consistent use of such tags makes it more likely that
+your post will be read by subscribers most interested in that topic.  It also faciliates
+sorting and filtering by email inbox rules.</p>
+<p>Some subject tags often seen on ooo-dev include:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>[www] for posts related to the website</li>
+<li>[Repo] for posts related to the source code repository</li>
+<li>[download] for posts related to the release download and mirroring infrastruture</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Other useful topic tags can be found by observing traffic on the list or by looking at the list archives.</p>
+<p>In addition to the topic subject tags, there are also tags used to indicate a request:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>[DISCUSS] indicates a rough idea is being floated, and input is welcome</li>
+<li>[PROPOSAL] indicates a specific proposal is being made, and often that Lazy Consensus is being sought.</li>
+<li>[VOTE] indicates that a formal vote is being called.  This is rare.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Note: it is common for a topic tag and an action tag to be combined, e.g.:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>[PROPOSAL][Repo] Migration of legacy repository to SVN</li>
+<li>[DISCUSS][download] What are our options of mirroring legacy releases?</li>
+</ul>
 <h3 id="development_mailing_list">Development Mailing List</h3>
 <p>This is where the community hangs out. This list is used to coordinate
 activities and ensure we are all pulling in the same direction.  This is a high traffic list, with an average of 57 posts/day.</p>