ATF - Mailing lists

Mailing lists

Even though ATF is highly tied to NetBSD, it is an independent project and therefore it has its own mailing lists. This page describes which these are, how to subscribe to them and where their archives are.

Subscription and unsubscription

The ATF mailing lists are managed by the Majordomo software. It does not provide a web interface, so all configuration (i.e. subscription and unsubscription requests) has to be done through plain-text e-mail messages.

In order to subscribe to one of the lists below, you have to send an e-mail message to the majordomo AT NetBSD.org address, with an empty subject and with the following text in the body:

subscribe list-name

Alternatively, if you want to subscribe an address different to the one you are using to send the message, use the following syntax:

subscribe list-name other-email-address@example.com

Similarly, to unsubscribe from a list, follow the same procedure described above but replace the word subscribe by unsubscribe in the body of the message.

Some more information about mailing lists can be found at the NetBSD mailing lists page, as all the rules described there apply to the ATF mailing lists. They are hosted on the same servers, after all.

ATF-specific mailing lists

These lists are the place to discuss issues that are related to ATF exclusively, and not to the way tests are implemented in The NetBSD Operating System. For the latter, see the next section.

Name	Links	Description
`atf-devel`	Archives Post address	Discussion of development issues related to the ATF. It is not tied to any specific project using this framework. Given that ATF is still very young and that the list is still low-traffic, this is also the appropriate place to ask user-related questions.

NetBSD-related mailing lists

Given that ATF is highly tied to NetBSD, and that NetBSD is going to use it for its test suite, there may be a need to send questions about the NetBSd test suite somewhere. The ATF mailing lists shown above is not the place to do so. Instead, use these NetBSD-specific lists:

Name	Links	Description
`current-users`	Archives Post address	Discussion area for users of NetBSD-current. You can use this list to ask general usage questions of ATF under NetBSD. Important messages regarding the future integration of ATF into the system will be sent here.
`tech-kern`	Archives Post address	Discussion of NetBSD kernel development. You can use this list to send inquiries about NetBSD-specific test cases that cover the kernel.
`tech-userlevel`	Archives Post address	Discussion of NetBSD userland development. You can use this list to send inquiries about NetBSD-specific test cases that cover the userland applications.