The Mailing List

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Overview

Slate has a e-mail list (http://lists.tunes.org/mailman/listinfo/slate) for everything from simple questions to bug reports and feature requests to major technical design debates. The list is open to all to join or simply browse (http://lists.tunes.org/archives/slate/).

The GMANE (http://www.gmane.org) website also provides an NNTP interface (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general) which you can subscribe to and post through. It also provides RSS feeds for the messages or topics - see the page referred for details.

Conventions

Some conventions that help with communicating (borrowed from the Squeak community):

Posts should include at the front of the subject line a "keyword" tag. This is an upper-case keyword in square brackets:

Email tags
Tag Purpose
[BUG] for bug reports
[FIX] bug fixes
[RFI] requests for implementation
[ENH] enhancements of existing features
[GOODIE] addition of a new feature
[ANN] announcements
[TEST] submitting SUnit tests
[DOC] some documentation
[TUT] some tutorial
[DEMO] mmm... demo