Mailing Lists

This page describes the RepRap mailing lists

There are three principal RepRap mailing lists:

reprap-dev

The reprap-dev mailing list is an open list with a sole focus on actual development. This is where you send patches and other fixes. This is also where you should send carefully explained and reproducable bug repports. There are at the time of writing no clearly defined heiracical structure in the reprap development process, so there are no sublists as common in other projects - there are no. say, reprap-dev-extruder or reprap-dev-electronics lists available.

Users are advised not to waste the time and energy of the main developers by attempting to use the development list as a source for help - there are much better alternatives.

reprap-dev is the official friendly but technical mailing list for all you friendly but technical people out there!!!

If it isn't technical, it will get nudged gently but persistently into the reprap-users mailing list, which is a great place for fun chat. If it isn't friendly we will have words, you and I it goes ... no idea. Let's keep it friendly.  :D

reprap-users

The reprap-users mailing list is also an open list. Users are wellcomed to participate in helping each other in whatever way they can. This is a great source for pointers and hints. Users are adviced to keep a freindly and good spirited attituede - don't tell people to "read the fucking manual", but rather point them politely to the relevant section of the somewhat daunting amount of literature new adopters face. If you think you have found a bug in one of the RepRap components, it is adviced to check with others on this mailing list firts before contacting reprap-dev, as it may be a problem unique to your machine, or it may simply a misunderstood concept (not uncommon). Also, more seasoned users may have great input on how to formally form a bug repport - good bug reports gets handled faster. Last but not least, reprap-users is a great place to exchange design ideas and get feed back on what works and what doesnt. This way you can get some tangible backing should you eventually chose to suggest them for inclution in the official upstream version of RepRap - your design/change is obviously no good in the official version if it only seems to work for you.

WHA? We have an official variant? Are you sure? --Sebastien Bailard 07:33, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

reprap-admin

This is the internal mailing list used by reprap's administrators. It is not open to public participation and it is not open to public viewing. Because of it's closed nature one can only speculate about what exactly is discussed there. As far as the users go, the administrators could be using this list to trade Pokemon cards. However, in practice such internal stewardship lists have been used to settle disputes among the core members, rather than doing dirty laundry in public. Obviously this is also where the existing team would discuss potential new mbers to the family of ranking developers.

Eh. So far, a bit of chat that belonged in reprap-users, and was moved there, and ... that's about it really.

It's worth keeping around in case some silly bugger starts selling boxes of rocks as repraps in the marketplace.

In which case, inventing a shadowy cabal of people who can back me up when I say "naughty-naughty-naughty" is much better than having an internal debate or self-organizing lynch mob rip apart reprap-users or, providence forbid, reprap-dev. Oh. reprap-admin is handy for "blessing" reprap moderators in the forum and as a mechanism to keep entrepreneurs from twiddling the front page.

Beyond that, could you rewrite this page? We don't have a population of second-class developers here. And also, could you scrub the

word "user" from this page? Everyone's a developer after all. I spent some time on the intro section of Admin for a reason.  :D

Please keep the bit about trading Pokemon cards. I like that bit. --Sebastien Bailard 06:48, 15 January 2011 (UTC)