General lists: The following are general lists that anyone is free to join:
List Purpose ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-announce Important events / milestones freebsd-bugs Bug reports freebsd-chat Non technical items related to the community freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current freebsd-isp Issues for ISP's using FreeBSD freebsd-policy Policy issues and suggestions freebsd-questions User questions
Technical lists: The following are the technical lists. You should read the charter carefully before joining them, and you should keep your e-mail within the scope of the guidelines.
List Purpose ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-doc Documentation project freebsd-fs Filesystems freebsd-hackers General Technical discussions freebsd-hardware General discussion of FreeBSD hardware freebsd-multimedia Multimedia discussions freebsd-platforms Porting to Non-Intel platforms freebsd-ports Discussion of "ports" freebsd-security Security issues freebsd-scsi SCSI subsystem
Limited lists: The following are limited lists that you will need approval to join. Even though access to these lists is controled, 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 seeing the log messages for source changes in specific areas:
List name Source area Area Description (source for) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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