Michael Powell wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Please send your make questions to the <[email protected]> mailing list. > > Do you happen to know of a way to subscribe to that mailing list? I > can't seem to find it and I've checked the gnu.org web site.
Ah... *That* is a question I can help with! :-) ================ One does not need to be subscribed in order to post. The default is that people will group reply to as I have done here. But it is always good to say you are not subscribed if you are not to ensure a copy. Just sending a message to [email protected] would post there the same as you have been sending messages to [email protected] . There is no difference. ================ There are multiple different ways to get to the mailing list information. One is that a listing of all of the mailing lists is available at this URL. It is shown as a link from every one of the mailing lists at the bottom. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo ================ Another way is that the GNU make web directory is here: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ I typed in "https://www.gnu.org/software/"; to the browser location bar and then added "make" to the end. Since I knew the project was called make. You can get to any of the projects this way. For example the example project "hello" and most others can be typed in there. On the https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ page it lists information about the project, documentation and other thigns, and about the mailing lists associated with it. ================ Another way is that many projects are hosted on Savannah, the GNU Project software forge. The main Savannah page is here: https://savannah.gnu.org/ Then simply search for the "make" project. The search will turn up this path for it. https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make Then select the "Mailing lists" link and it lists mailing lists associated with the project. ================ Another way is that you can subscribe directly using email. Send a message to the [email protected] address with subscribe in the body. This will start the subscription process which will send you a confirmation email. Add "-request" to any mailing list to get to the Mailman automated robot. ================ Another way is that you can send email to either the [email protected] address to talk to the humans who administer the mailing list. Add "-owner" to any mailing list to get to the humans who administer the list. They will be happy to help you subscribe and unsubscribe. Mostly unsubscribe. Because people forget how they subscribed and need help getting unsubscribed. > Or a Google Group for that matter. Of course Google uses proprietary software for their stuff and here for the GNU Project it is all about the libre free software. :-) Therefore we have always hosted ourselves on completely libre free software, also making that software available to anyone else who would like to do the same. > Search criteria on "make" for instance, or with combinations, are a > little to relaxed and do not turn up useful results even when > constrained by things like "gnu". I am rather surprised by this. When I search for "gnu make" the very first link is the main project page. Actually the first eight links are all properly related to pages associated with GNU make. But no matter. Hopefully the above hints are useful to learn more about the GNU Project. https://www.gnu.org/ Hope this helps! Bob
