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Name: Mailing Lists
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Created: 7/31/06 3:22:59 PM
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<h1>Important Notice</h1>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT: Before posting a question or problem to any mailing list,
</strong>please first look at the following resources:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/faq/index.html">FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="daisy:1174">Cocoon Links</a></li>
<li><a href="daisy:1171">Mailing list archives</a> - a veritable goldmine of
Cocoon-specific information - if you know where to look!</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> Careful postings please. These are high-volume
lists, so we all needs ways to help us all work smarter. See tips for
<a href="contrib.html#tips">Contributing</a></p>
<h1>Tips (keeping focus helps your points come across!)</h1>
<p>We use the mail list both as a media to transmit our thoughts and as a
virtual location to hang around and feel part of something.</p>
<p>In order for the second to happen, you just have to subscribe. That's it,
nothing fancy.</p>
<p>But in order for the first to happen (transmit your thoughts) it's an
entirely different matter.</p>
<p>Here are a few things that help a lot:</p>
<p>1) reduce noise, increase signal: your email client will quote the message
you are replying to automatically, but it's *your* responsibility to remove
those parts that aren't part of the signal of your email. Sure, you might let
this operation to the reader, but you must understand that the reader is not
supposed to do this. Or, at least, it should be *you* to make the reader
confortable.</p>
<p>2) be respectful, be aware of community dynamics: sending HTML in the mail
more than *doubles* the message size and interferes with text-based mail
clients. You want your point to come across, so make sure that everybody can get
to that point with the *easiest* possible effort, or, otherwise, your signal
might be wasted in the noise and the time you think you are saving, you are, in
fact, loosing it completely.</p>
<p>3) promote your signal: people on mail lists are used to read tons of email a
day. Without a good 'promotion' of your points, they might get missed in the
noise. (note: 'noise' is a subjective notion, what is signal for you might be
noise for others, it's up to you to make your signal stand up). Things that help
in this respect:</p>
<p>a) a simple yet effective email title. Geeks are ultimately curious animals,
tickle their curiosity!</p>
<p>b) be elegant and visually effective. Sure, you have to use ASCII, but there
is a lot that you can convey with ASCII</p>
<pre> +---------------------------------+
| I'm sure nobody will miss this! |
+---------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>c) structure your text. Whenever possible, use *strong* or _underline_ or
/italic/ or use bullet lists and so on. Consider textual RFC, that's how you
should write your emails. Sure, it takes a little more time, but I guarantee you
that it saves a lot of it later on.</p>
<p>d) keep paragraphs short! you can go on and on forever, I'm sure you do, but
keep your point focused, so that the signal/noise ratio is increased.</p>
<p>4) be respectful of other's opinion: your email will be stored forever,
archived in several locations around the world, indexed by Google, locked in
magnetic tapes into the NSA caves and so on. Just keep this in mind before you
hit "send", this will keep your ego honest :)</p>
<p>5) admit your incapacity/ignorance/mistakes: there is nothing more
appreciated in a community that someone that can stand up and apologize for
something. Remember: if you don't make mistakes, you can't learn. And if you
don't admit you made it, nobody knows you are learning :)</p>
<p>Keep all these things in mind and you'll be impressed by how much fun and
knowledge you can get out of all this open development thing.</p>
<h1>Cocoon Users</h1>
<p>Post mail to <tt>users<at>cocoon.apache.org</tt>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:users-subscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Subscribe</a>
<a href="mailto:users-unsubscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a></p>
<p>The general Cocoon list, for problems, bug reports, asking for advice on how
best to implement a site, comparisons with other XML frameworks, etc. But don't
forget to look in the FAQ first, please!</p>
<p><strong>This is not an appropriate list for general XSL and XML
questions.</strong> Instead look at the various resources listed at the
<a href="daisy:1174">Cocoon Links</a> pages, or try the
<a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/">Mulberrytech XSL list</a>.</p>
<p><strong>This is also not an appropriate list for general Java
questions.</strong> Instead try
<a href="news:comp.lang.java.help">news:comp.lang.java.help</a> or
<a href="http://hotdispatch.com/">http://hotdispatch.com/</a>, for example.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> If you are posting about a problem you are having
(as most people do), it will aid in finding a speedy resolution if you provide
full configuration details (especially the <strong>Cocoon version
number</strong>, but also your operating system, JDK version, and servlet
engine), and full details of any errors encountered (including full error
messages and stack traces).</p>
<p>Please also have some consideration for the other users on the list - this is
a busy list and we do not appreciate getting the exact same message posted
impatiently several times a day/week! Doing so is only likely to make your
question answered more slowly, or not at all, not faster.</p>
<p class="note">Make sure you are subscribed to this list prior to posting, by
sending a blank email to the subscription address mentioned above. Although
mails from non-subscribers are manually moderated through if applicable, our
policy is to reject mails from regular posters who fail to properly subscribe.
All this is to prevent spam, and to reduce the workload of the moderators.</p>
<h1>Cocoon Dev</h1>
<p>Post mail to <tt>dev<at>cocoon.apache.org</tt>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Subscribe</a>
<a href="mailto:dev-unsubscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a></p>
<p>This list is for developers <strong>working on</strong> or wanting to work on
Cocoon itself (not developers merely working <strong>with</strong> Cocoon), for
code patches to Cocoon to be posted (please use <tt>diff -u</tt> format), and
for general Cocoon questions.</p>
<p>Note this is <strong>NOT</strong> for general Cocoon questions like "Why
isn't Cocoon working on my machine?" - please ask those sorts of questions on
cocoon-users (after reading the FAQ first, of course).</p>
<p class="note">Make sure you are subscribed to this list prior to posting, by
sending a blank email to the subscription address mentioned above. Although
mails from non-subscribers are manually moderated through if applicable, our
policy is to reject mails from regular posters who fail to properly subscribe.
All this is to prevent spam, and to reduce the workload of the moderators.</p>
<h1>Cocoon Docs</h1>
<p>Post mail to <tt>docs<at>cocoon.apache.org</tt>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:docs-subscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Subscribe</a>
<a href="mailto:docs-unsubscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a></p>
<p>This list is for everyone (users and developers) to assist with building the
Cocoon documentation. Also, all
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/">Wiki</a> changes are automatically
posted here.</p>
<p>Please be careful to limit cross-posting between the Cocoon lists. You can
assume that all developers are also subscribed to cocoon-docs. Any docs-related
thread on -users or -dev should be moved to -docs (do not Cc the original list,
but send a short reply to indicate that the thread has moved).</p>
<p class="note">Make sure you are subscribed to this list prior to posting, by
sending a blank email to the subscription address mentioned above. Although
mails from non-subscribers are manually moderated through if applicable, our
policy is to reject mails from regular posters who fail to properly subscribe.
All this is to prevent spam, and to reduce the workload of the moderators.</p>
<h1>Cocoon CVS</h1>
<p><a href="mailto:cvs-subscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Subscribe</a>
<a href="mailto:cvs-unsubscribe@cocoon.apache.org">Unsubscribe</a></p>
<p>This <strong>read-only</strong> list sends out notification messages
detailing any change made to the Subversion (SVN) repository where all the
source code and libraries are stored for development purposes. The average user
probably doesn't need to subscribe to this list. (It is named CVS due to the
fact that Cocoon previously used CVS as its repository.)</p>
<p class="note">You should never post to this list at all. Only the SVN server
should post to it.</p>
<h1>Cocoon Users-Fr</h1>
<p>This is a french-speaking users list. More information on this list in the
<a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/fr/welcome">fr zone</a>.</p>
<h1>Related Mailing Lists</h1>
<p>(See also
<a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/XML/"> ODP XML
links</a> for related websites.)</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/">Mulberrytech XSL list</a> - more
appropriate than Cocoon Users for general XSL questions.</li>
<li><a href="http://xml.apache.org/mail.html">XML Apache Projects</a> - list of
mailing lists for all the projects on xml.apache.org.</li>
<li>Some servlet engines have their own mailing lists for servlet-engine
configuration questions, such as
<a href="mailto:tomcat-user-subscribe@jakarta.apache.org">tomcat-user</a>
(<strong>note</strong> it is "user" and not "users").</li>
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