Contact Us¶
Mailing Lists¶
The FOSSology project maintains several mailing lists to communicate project status and information:
| List Name | Purpose | Subscribe | List Archive |
|---|---|---|---|
| fossology | General discussion, user questions and comments. | info | archive search |
| fossology-devel | Developer and hacking discussions. | info | archive search |
| fossology-commits | Automated commit info/diff messages from subversion for project developers. Don't join this unless you want to see EVERY commit message. | info | archive |
| fossology-sysadmin | Automated messages for sysadmins of the fossology project itself. If you are a sysadmin wanting to discuss the admin of YOUR system, use the general fossology mailing list. This list is primarily for maintenance and monitoring purposes. | info | archive (private) |
Generally only the fossology list will be of much interest to non developers;
IRC¶
The FOSSology Project also has a public IRC discussion channel on OFTC.
| Server | irc.oftc.net |
|---|---|
| Port | 6667 |
| Channel | #fossology |
Anyone can join the channel and chat about FOSSology, ask questions, get help, and get more information. There are usually several FOSSology developers online at any given time.
Most UNIX-like systems have IRC clients available; one excellent graphical tool is called XChat (http://www.xchat.org/)
An excellent port of XChat to the Windows platform is available as well from http://www.silverex.org/