Mailing List
Most projects use a mailing list (listserv) of some variety. Very large projects use multiple mailing lists, depending upon their needs. They may have one for overall development of the project, another for user support, and then one just for announcements or community matters. However a project organizes its mailing list(s), you typically will find the information listed in the CONTRIBUTING or README file.
Mailing lists are a great channel for long-form discussion, particularly among the members of a distributed community. Not only does a mailing list encourage more thorough answers, but by slowing down the conversation, mailing lists help to level the playing field for all participants. The asynchronous nature of mailing lists ...
Get Forge Your Future with Open Source now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
