Mailing lists
Mailing lists are used for some of the FlightGear community's communications, in particular among the core developers who are working on the flight simulator itself.
Some questions are better asked on the mailing list instead of the forum. You do not strictly have to be a core developer to subscribe and/or post to the mailing lists.
The mailing lists
Some of the lists are for discussions while some only contain announcements.
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| Flightgear-announce | archive | subscribe | flightgear-announce@lists.sourceforge.net | FlightGear announcements | |
| Flightgear-bugs | archive | subscribe | flightgear-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net | FlightGear Bug Tracker | |
| Flightgear-builds | archive | subscribe | flightgear-builds@lists.sourceforge.net | Chatter from the FlightGear build servers | |
| Flightgear-commitlogs | archive | subscribe | flightgear-commitlogs@lists.sourceforge.net | Source code change commit logs | |
| Flightgear-cvslogs | archive | subscribe | flightgear-cvslogs@lists.sourceforge.net | CVS commit log distribution | |
| Flightgear-devel | archive | subscribe | flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net | FlightGear developer discussions | Most active list |
| Flightgear-fgaddon-commitlogs | archive | subscribe | flightgear-fgaddon-commitlogs@lists.sourceforge.net | Commit log message for the fgaddon repository (content developers) | |
| Flightgear-flightmodel | archive | subscribe | flightgear-flightmodel@lists.sourceforge.net | Flight model discussions | |
| Flightgear-newsletter | archive | subscribe | flightgear-newsletter@lists.sourceforge.net | FlightGear newsletter announcements and discussions | |
| Flightgear-scenery | archive | subscribe | flightgear-scenery@lists.sourceforge.net | Discussion of Scenery development: code, tools, GIS data, models, etc. | |
| Flightgear-users | archive | subscribe | flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net | FlightGear user discussions | Mostly replaced by the forum |
Subscribing to the devel list
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Then you are on the mailing list and can post messages freely (anyone bringing in conflict will be kicked off pretty fast, but otherwise there's no problem). Then just discuss the problem - here for YASim - lay it out in as much detail as you can and show why you are interested in this. It will really help if you are willing to work on this too, even if it not to do with the code. Show that you want to help get this done and are not just asking for features. That may be enough to get this implemented. You'll find the right people there to point you to the heart of the problem. Oh, the list is extremely slow compared to the forums, so responses can sometimes take up to a week (much longer than that and you should probe with a response to your own message). For the FG mailing lists, it really only takes less than a minute to subscribe, and seconds to unsubscribe later on, if you so wish:
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Posting to the mailing lists without subscribing
Subscribing is not strictly necessary to send emails.
Your post may be significantly delayed if you are not subscribed though. E-mails from addresses which are not subscribed to the list are held for moderator approval before they are posted.
Report bugs to the issue tracker
Bugs should preferably be reported to the issue tracker instead of posting to a mailing list.
You may have to register a SourceForge account first.