Smail3-devel Mailing List Charter --------------------------------- The Smail-3 Developers' List exists to help people with access to the Smail-3 source repository co-ordinate changes, make releases, and administer the repository. The membership of smail3-devel should be exactly those people who have been given access to the CVS repository for the Smail-3 sources. Access to the source (more correctly defined as being a member of the group "smail3" on the source server), mandates membership on the smail3-devel list, so this relationship is transmutable. The smail3-devel list may be used to discuss: - administrivia regarding the Smail-3 source repository, release process, and; - changes and features intended for inclusion in the official Smail-3 release (either source code or documentation), which someone plans to implement, or has implemented. The smail3-devel list should not be used to discuss: - changes or features to packages other than the Smail-3 release (e.g., related packages like Exim, or other groups' distributions of Smail-3, esp. binary distributions.), - changes which nobody has offered to implement, or - the philosophy, administration, or use of Smail-3. These topics should either go on smail3-users@athabascau.ca, smail3-wizards@athabascau.ca, or have a new mailing list created for them. The topic restrictions in this charter do not reflect the development group's future plans for Smail3; rather, they reflect a topic classification which the group finds helpful. Optional membership on the list will allow developers to receive direct copies of the submitted PRs. Developers will also be expected to wander through GNATS reports periodically, fix reported bugs and add requested features; and to update the PR status as changes are made. Optional membership in the list will allow developers to receive copies of the CVS commit logs to track actual ongoing development. Procedure for dealing with people who want to be developers: People who want access are first requested to send patches and have them reviewed by an existing developer(s). If they submit some good ones (preferably over a period of time, to demonstrate sustained interest), then one of the developers can ask the smail3-devel mailing list whether it is OK to make this person a developer. If there are no objections, an account will be created for the new developer. #ident "@(#)smail:RELEASE-3_2_0_121:Smail3-devel,v 1.4 2002/02/18 21:18:56 woods Exp"