Project:Infrastructure/Mailing Lists

Overview
Gentoo currently uses mmlmj for mailing list management.

Gentoo-Dev
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 Gentoo-Dev whitelist
Only developers can edit the whitelist. Only single email addresses will be accepted. To modify the whitelist please do the following:


 * 1) git clone git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/infra/gentoo-dev-whitelist
 * 2) cd gentoo-dev-whitelist
 * 3) ${EDITOR} whitelist
 * 4) Add the email address
 * 5) git commit
 * 6) git push

git will reject unsigned pushes, so please sign your push with a valid gpg key.

Abuse 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 ".*@debian.org" as an example) and these requests should be made to the Gentoo Council.