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20.1.1. List summary

General lists: The following are general lists which anyone is free to join:

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-announce         Important events and project milestones
freebsd-bugs             Bug reports
freebsd-chat             Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD community
freebsd-current          Discussion concerning the use of FreeBSD-current
freebsd-isp              Issues for Internet Service Providers using FreeBSD
freebsd-policy           General policy issues and suggestions
freebsd-questions        User questions

Technical lists: The following lists are for technical discussion. You should read the charter carefully before joining one, keeping any messages sent to a list within the scope of the guidelines.

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-doc              The FreeBSD Documentation project
freebsd-fs               Filesystems
freebsd-hackers          General technical discussion
freebsd-hardware         General discussion of hardware for running FreeBSD
freebsd-multimedia       Multimedia discussion
freebsd-platforms        Concerning ports to non-Intel architecture platforms
freebsd-ports            Discussion of the ports collection
freebsd-security         Security issues
freebsd-scsi             The SCSI subsystem

Limited lists: The following lists require approval to join, though anyone is free to send suggestions and comments to them. It is a good idea establish a presence in the technical lists before asking to join one of these limited lists.

List                     Purpose
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freebsd-admin            Administrative issues
freebsd-arch             Architecture and design discussions
freebsd-core             FreeBSD core team
freebsd-install          Installation development
freebsd-user-groups      User group coordination

CVS lists: The following lists are for people interested in seeing the log messages for changes to various areas of the source tree.

List name       Source area          Area Description (source for)
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cvs-CVSROOT     /usr/src/[A-Z]*      Top level /usr/src file changes
cvs-all         /usr/src             All changes to the tree (superset)
cvs-bin         /usr/src/bin         System binaries
cvs-etc         /usr/src/etc         System files
cvs-games       /usr/src/games       Games
cvs-gnu         /usr/src/gnu         GPL'd utilities
cvs-include     /usr/src/include     Include files
cvs-kerberosIV  /usr/src/kerberosIV  Kerberos encryption code
cvs-lib         /usr/src/lib         System libraries
cvs-libexec     /usr/src/libexec     System binaries
cvs-ports       /usr/ports           Ported software
cvs-sbin        /usr/src/sbin        System binaries
cvs-share       /usr/src/share       System shared files
cvs-sys         /usr/src/sys         Kernel
cvs-usrbin      /usr/src/usr.bin     Use binaries
cvs-usrsbin     /usr/src/usr.sbin    System binaries


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