Mailing Lists

Mailing List Overview

KDE (as many other open source projects) uses mailing lists as main way of communication.

Many mailing lists of KDE are described on the mailing lists description page. Most KDE mailing lists are handled by the Mailman interface (Here too is a list with descriptions).

Look at the start of mailing lists description page if you would prefer reading a mailing list in another way than as emails to you.

Most KDE mailing lists are publicly archived in lists.kde.org, some are only archived in the Mailman interface; in that case they might be reserved to subscribers (therefore not public).

Most KDE mailing lists are either for "developers" or for "users" (seldom for both). This difference can be important if you want to follow closely an application in KDE. Often information about releases are only given in such developer mailing lists and not repeated in any other mailing list. This is especially true for freeze or release schedules.

Of course in KDE there are mailing lists that are more oriented for translators, general ones and also language-specific ones. (The language specific languages are listed only in the Mailman interface. Mostly they have the language code in their name.)

Mailing List kde-i18n-doc

The main mailing list for translators in KDE is the mailing list called kde-i18n-doc.

You can subscribe it at its Mailman interface.

The archive is at lists.kde.org. (The archive is public.)

The direct email is kde-i18n-doc@kde.org.

Even if the mailing list has "doc" in its name, it is not limited to discussions about translating documentation. (The name has historical reasons. There were two mailing lists for discussing about translations. As it soon seemed to be futile, only one was kept. The mailing list kde-i18n-doc was the more active, so it is this one that was kept.)

Mailing List kde-doc-english

The mailing list for discussing about untranslated messages and untranslated documentation is kde-doc-english.

You can subscribe it at its Mailman interface.

The archive is at lists.kde.org. (The archive is public.)

Mailing List kde-commits

In KDE, there is a mailing for notification of every change in KDE SVN. This mailing list is called kde-commits. The mailing list is not read-only, and often there are discussions about a commit, when other developers do not find the commit right.

This mailing list is with very high traffic. It is recommended to have a (cheap) broadband Internet connection if you want to subscribe to this list.

You can subscribe it at its Mailman interface.

The archive is at marc.info. (The archive is public.)

Mailing List kde-bugs-dist

In KDE, there is a mailing for notification of every change in KDE SVN. This mailing list is called kde-bugs-dist. The mailing list is read-only. If you want to reply to a message, please do it to the corresponding bug report.

This mailing list is with very high traffic. It is recommended to have a (cheap) broadband Internet connection if you want to subscribe to this list.

You can subscribe it at its Mailman interface.

The archive is at marc.info. (The archive is public.)

Subscribing to this list is of limited use for a translator, as mostly the bugs reported will not have anything to do with translations. It can only be useful to find translation bugs reported to an application instead of being reported as "l10n" bug (and to move such bug reports). Mostly for translators it is easier to query for the "l10n" bugs when they have time to do it, especially if there are interested only in their own language.

Article contributed by Yuri Chornoivan, Nicolas Goutte, and 1999-2002 Thomas Diehl thd@kde.org under the GFDL-1.2-or-later license.