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.

List	Status	Archive	Subscribe	Email address	Remarks
FlightGear-Devel	Active	archive	subscribe	flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net	The most active list. Where you can contact mostly core developers.
FlightGear-commitlogs		archive	subscribe	flightgear-commitlogs@lists.sourceforge.net	Announces all commits to some of the repositories.
FlightGear-Scenery	Quiet	archive	subscribe	flightgear-scenery@lists.sourceforge.net	Scenery developments.
FlightGear-Users		archive	subscribe	flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net	Mostly replaced by the forum these days.
FlightGear-Announce	Inactive	archive	subscribe	flightgear-announce@lists.sourceforge.net
FlightGear-FlightModel		archive	subscribe	flightgear-flightmodel@lists.sourceforge.net
FlightGear-Newsletter		archive	subscribe		Receive an email when a new edition is published.

Subscribing to the devel list

Just sign up here with these steps: Add you email address and pick a password, then click on [subscribe]. If you want to instantly see responses, don't choose 'daily digest'. This option can be changed at any time. Wait for a confirmation email (usually < 10 seconds, and a few minutes max). It will often be found in the spam folder. Then click on the link in that message. Select your settings. At the bottom there are two buttons - one to cancel the process, the other to subscript. Click on the correct one. This step is often forgotten! — bugman (Fri May 15). Re: Looking for aircraft with 'paper cut' bugs. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

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: The FlightGear mailings lists. Edit: Oh, to post a message to the list, you simply send an email to flightgear-devel att lists.sourceforge.net after you have subscribed. — bugman (Fri May 15). Re: Looking for aircraft with 'paper cut' bugs. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

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.

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