Project:Infrastructure/Mailing Lists

Gentoo currently uses mlmmj for mailing list management. This page Article description::provides details on managing the gentoo-dev mailing list and the whitelist.

Gentoo-dev mailing list
Currently its a fairly standard install except for the 'gentoo-dev' mailing list. The 'gentoo-dev' list has custom posting policies and by Council Resolution it is only for Gentoo Developers and their delegates.

Managing the whitelist
Only developers can edit the whitelist. The whitelist supports a single address per line. Comments are not supported; if you want to comment, do it in the git commit description. The whitelist will ignore lines it doesn't recognize. Any gentoo.org addresses are already whitelisted (but not in this file) so don't add any gentoo addresses.

To modify the whitelist please do the following:


 * 1) Add the email address
 * 1) Add the email address
 * 1) Add the email address
 * 1) Add the email address

The git remote repository will reject unsigned pushes, so sign push with a valid GPG key (use the command to push).

Management of the whitelist
Every commit is signed and correlated with a developer; abuse of the whitelist (e.g. by attempting to whitelist  or other such attempts) is not appropriate and will result in disciplinary action.

Other whitelist requests
From time to time we may modify the whitelist in broad strokes (by whitelisting things like  as an example) and these requests should be made to the Gentoo Council.

Managing un-whitelisted mail
Currently mail that is not via whitelisted posters goes to the mailing list moderators. It's their role to inform people how to get whitelisted.