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<h1>Boost Mailing Lists (A.K.A. Discussion Groups)</h1>
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<p>The mailing lists are the heart of the Boost community. You
may read the lists via full-content email or email digests.</p>
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<h2>Before Posting</h2>
<p><strong>Read the <a href="policy.html">Discussion Policy
and Guide to Effective Posting</a>.</strong> Doing so will
help you to ensure that your post is read by the people who
can help you and received in the spirit in which it was
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anti-spam measure, postings to most Boost mailing lists will
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<ul class="toc">
<li><a href="#users">Users</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#main">Developers</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#archive">Archives</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#announce">Announce</a></li>
<li><a href="#interest">Interest</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#projects">Project-Specific</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#jamboost">Boost.Build</a></li>
<li><a href="#cmake">Boost CMake</a></li>
<li><a href="#cplussig">Python C++-Sig (for
Boost.Python)</a></li>
<li><a href="#langbinding">Language Binding</a></li>
<li><a href="#mpi">Boost.MPI Development</a></li>
<li><a href="#spirit">Boost.Spirit</a></li>
<li><a href="#boostdocs">Boost.Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="#testing">Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="#ublas">Boost.uBlas (numerics)</a></li>
<li><a href="#thread">Boost.Thread</a></li>
<li><a href="#translation">Translation Groups</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#IRC">#boost IRC channel</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="users" id="users"></a>Boost Users mailing list</h2>
<p>This list is oriented toward casual users of the Boost
libraries. It is a good place to start if you are having
trouble getting started with Boost or its individual libraries.
Feel free to post both "newbie" and more challenging questions,
but please check first to see if there's an appropriate
<a href="#projects">Project-Specific</a> list; you'll often get
better answers in a forum dedicated to your problem area. This
list is relatively low volume (less than 500 per month).
Subscribe or unsubscribe at the <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users"
class="external">Boost Users list home page</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="main" id="main"></a>Boost developers mailing list</h2>
<p>This is the main Boost mailing list. It is high volume (over
1000 messages per month), very technical, and oriented toward
Boost library developers. It is also read by many other members
interested in watching the Boost library development process.
Virtually all Boost decisions, major or minor, technical or
otherwise, are reached via public discussion on this mailing
list. It is where the formal reviews of proposed libraries take
place. Subscribe or unsubscribe at <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost" class=
"external">https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost</a>.</p>
<p>When we talk about the "members of Boost", we are talking
about those signed up for this main mailing list.</p>
<h3><a name="archive" id="archive"></a>Archives for Boost
developers list</h3>
<p>Archives of Boost messages include the <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/" class=
"external">MailMan Archive</a> on <a href="/">our home
page</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="announce" id="announce"></a>Boost Announce mailing
list</h2>
<p>This is an announce-only list for notification of upcoming
software releases and formal reviews of proposed libraries. One
to three messages per month.&nbsp; Subscribe or unsubscribe at
the <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-announce"
class="external">Boost Announce list home page</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="interest" id="interest"></a>Boost Interest Mailing
List</h2>
<p>This list is a moderated low-traffic announcement-only list
of interest to the Boost community. On-topic messages will
include announcements of books, magazine articles, papers,
talks, seminars, products, tools, events, or conferences on
advanced uses of C++, generic/generative/meta-programming, and,
of course, the Boost libraries. Off-topic will be discussion of
any kind. Job postings are accepted at the moderators'
discretion. Subscribe or unsubscribe at the <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-interest"
class="external">Boost-Interest home page</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="projects" id="projects"></a>Project-Specific
lists</h2>Several mailing lists have been established for
specific Boost projects:
<h3><a name="jamboost" id="jamboost"></a>Boost.Build list</h3>
<p>The mailing list for the <a href="../build/">Boost
Build System</a> is located <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-build"
class="external">here</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="cmake" id="cmake"></a>Boost CMake list</h3>
<p>Development of the experimental <a class="external" href=
"http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMake">CMake build
system</a> is being coordinated on the <a class="external"
href="https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake">Boost
CMake mailing list</a>. Any questions about CMake should be
asked here and not on the main Boost.Build list.</p>
<h3><a name="cplussig" id="cplussig"></a>Python C++-Sig (for
Boost.Python)</h3>
<p>The <a href=
"http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/c++-sig/" class=
"external">Python C++-sig</a> is not strictly Boost-specific,
but nearly all the traffic concerns <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/libs/python">Boost.Python</a>. See also the
<a href="#langbinding">Language Binding</a> list below. You can
join the <a href=
"http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig" title=
"Python C++-sig mailing list">mailing list</a>. There are
also searchable archives at <a href=
"http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/cpp-sig"
class="external">ASPN</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="langbinding" id="langbinding"></a>Language
Binding</h3>
<p>The <a href=
"http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-langbinding"
class="external">Language Binding</a> list is for discussion of
a generalized framework for binding C++ to other languages and
systems based on the technology of <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/libs/python">Boost.Python</a> and <a href=
"http://luabind.sourceforge.net/" class="external">Luabind</a>.
The plan is to provide a single front-end for describing
bindings with runtime-pluggable back ends for binding to
specific languages.</p>
<h3 id="mpi">Boost.MPI Development</h3>
<p>A separate developer mailing list for <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/libs/mpi/">Boost.MPI</a> specific topics is
located <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-mpi" class=
"external">here</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="spirit" id="spirit"></a>Boost.Spirit lists</h3>
<p>Spirit has two additional mailing lists. <a href=
"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spirit-general"
class="external">Spirit-general</a> for Spirit users and
<a href=
"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spirit-devel"
class="external">Spirit-devel</a> for Spirit developers (open
to anyone who wishes to hang out with Spirit coders).</p>
<h3><a name="boostdocs" id="boostdocs"></a>Boost.Documentation
list</h3>
<p>The mailing list for the <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/tools/boostbook/index.html">Boost Documentation
System</a> is located <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-docs" class=
"external">here</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="ublas" id="ublas"></a>uBLAS development
(ublas-dev) list</h3>
<p>A separate user and developer mailing list for <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/">Boost
uBLAS</a> specific topics is located <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/" class="external">here</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="thread" id="thread"></a>Thread development
(threads-devel) list</h3>
<p>A separate developer mailing list for <a href=
"/doc/libs/release/libs/thread/doc/index.html">Boost Thread</a>
specific topics is located <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/threads-devel">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> This mailing list is for the
discussion of the specification and implementation of
Boost.Threads only &acirc;&euro;&rdquo; questions regarding
usage should be directed to the <a href="#users">Boost
Users</a> list, or the main <a href="#main">Boost
developers</a> list.</p>
<h3><a name="testing" id="testing"></a>Testing list</h3>
<p>The setup, procedures and tools necessary for running Boost
regression tests are discussed on <a href=
"https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-testing"
class="external">this list</a>. The list's main participants are
regression runners - people who run Boost tests on a variety of
compilers and platforms, and the maintainers of tools for
collecting and processing test results.</p>
<p><b>Important:</b> questions relevant to a wider audience,
including questions about Boost.Test framework or test results
for a particular library, should be posted to main development
list.</p>
<h3><a name="translation" id="translation"></a>Translation
Groups</h3>
<p>Boost doesn't have the resources to translate the
documentation itself, but there is at least one separate group
translating the documentation. If you have formed another, tell
us on the <a href="#boostdocs">documentation list</a> and we'll
add a link.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href=
"http://groups.google.com/group/boost_doc_translation">Chinese
translators group</a> (<a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/boost-doc-zh/">main
webpage</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h2>#boost <a name="IRC" id="IRC">IRC</a> channel</h2>
<p>In addition to the mailing lists presented above, a #boost
IRC channel on <a href="http://freenode.net">freenode</a> is
frequented by Boost developers and users. As usual with IRC
channels, one should not necessarily expect that his questions
will be answered right away. The channel is not strictly
moderated.</p>
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