The Subversion project maintains several mailing lists for use by various members of the community. But before we say much more, please forgive us for shouting out the following:
If you have a question, please check the Subversion book first. The single page edition of the book can be searched easily.
If you cannot find the answer in the Subversion book, please search the archives (the search form links to lists.apache.org, a site requiring JavaScript. If your browser doesn't support JavaScript, please check another archive linked below!):
If you cannot find an answer in the archives, please post your question to:
You do not need to be subscribed to post, but please expect a small delay for your post to appear (see below for details).
You do not need to be subscribed to post; it's common practice on our lists to mention in post that you aren't subscribed and would appreciate being explicitly Cc:ed in any responses. That way you get your responses without getting mails about every other active thread.
If it's your first post, there may be a small delay (one day or so) before your mail appears, because the moderators have to approve the unrecognized address. After the first time, there should be no more delay.
We strongly recommend that newcomers to the Subversion project read the "Mailing Lists" section of the Subversion Community Guide.
All of the following lists are publicly archived. (The sole exception is the private@ list whose archives are available to its subscribers.) Both public and private archives are available to members of the Apache Software Foundation. When you send mail to these lists, you are publicly publishing the contents without condition, pursuant to the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy. This is not a new policy; Subversion's mailing list archives have always been public, so please don't take this as a deterrent to participating in the community!
Now that we've gotten all that off our collective chests, here are our primary mailing lists:
| List | Details |
|---|---|
| users@ |
Description:
User mailing list for Subversion. Please post
all usage questions here. This is the default
mailing list, if such a concept makes sense. If you're
in doubt as to whether a post should go here or to
'dev', then it should go here first. People
will suggest posting it to 'dev' if that's
appropriate.
Screenshots:
Please avoid posting screenshots of error messages and such
to this list. Output of command line utilities should be pasted
into email as plain text. On Windows systems, the text of an
error message can be copied by pressing
Ctrl-C
in the error message window and then pasted into email by
pressing Ctrl-V.
Subscribe:
Send an email to
users-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
(you don't need to be subscribed to post)
Unsubscribe:
Send an email to
users-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org
Archives:
Corporate information:
If you represent a corporate entity, or offer
products or services relating to Subversion, this list might
seem like a good way to broadcast information to a large
group of users. We would encourage you to think twice
about doing so. The tolerance for
spam
on this list is very low, and by abusing it for
corporate purposes, you run the very real risk of
alienating yourself and your company from the greater
Subversion community. An occasional mail, at an
infrequent interval (say, once/month) might be
acceptable, but please use common sense. If it seems
inappropriate, it probably is.
|
| dev@ |
Description:
The development mailing list for Subversion.
Non-development questions should be posted to 'users'
instead; that includes build problems, configuration
issues, etc, as well as usage questions.
Subscribe:
Send an email to
dev-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
(you don't need to be subscribed to post)
Unsubscribe:
Send an email to
dev-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org
Archives:
|
| commits@ |
Description:
This list receives automated commit emails from the
repository. DO NOT POST to this list. Only
subscribe to it if you want to read commit emails.
Subscribe:
commits-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
commits-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org
Archives:
|
| announce@ |
Description:
Low traffic list: only occasional announcements about
Subversion releases go here. Please DO NOT POST
to this list unless it's an announcement. (The list is
moderated anyway, so your post will not go through
unless it's a legitimate announcement.)
Subscribe:
announce-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
Unsubscribe:
announce-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org
Archives:
|
| notifications@ |
Description:
This list receives automated messages from continuous integration
(CI) system, currently
GitHub Actions.
Unsubscribe:
notifications-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org
Archives:
|
| private@ |
Description:
The full committers' (PMC) mailing list. Used to discuss
confidential matters, such as potential new committers and
security issues before their public disclosure.
Subscribe:
This list is by-invitation only.
Archives:
|
To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email to LISTNAME-subscribe@subversion.apache.org (where LISTNAME is the name of the list: "dev", "users", etc.) from the email address you wish to be subscribed.
Spam filters don't like messages with empty Subjects; just use e.g. subscribe. Spam filters are also more likely to reject HTML-formatted messages; please use plain text.
You will receive a confirmation request e-mail in reply. You must reply to this e-mail to complete the process.
To unsubscribe from the lists above, simply send email to LISTNAME-unsubscribe@subversion.apache.org (where LISTNAME is the name of the list: "dev", "users", etc.) from the email address you wish to be unsubscribed.
If that doesn't work, ensure that you are attempting to unsubscribe the correct email address. Look at the Return-Path header in one of the list mails to determine which email address is subscribed, and then send email to LISTNAME-unsubscribe-some.name=some.domain@subversion.apache.org.
Spam filters don't like messages with empty Subjects; just use e.g. unsubscribe. Spam filters are also more likely to reject HTML-formatted messages; please use plain text.
You will receive a confirmation request e-mail in reply. You must reply to this e-mail to complete the process.
For more details, see the Subscribing and Unsubscribing section of the ASF Mailing Lists page.
It's often useful to search the mailing list archives before posting or replying: someone may have already reported the bug you're about to report, for example, or have already written the answer you're about to write. In the table above you'll find links to archives of our mailing lists. The primary archives are at apache.org, but other sites offer alternative archives of some of our lists, too.
Note that if the search functions at one of these archives don't do what you need, try one of the alternates — they're all copies of the same data, but they offer different interfaces.
If you want to download the archives as mbox files, you can do this from lists.apache.org (use the download link in the upper right).
If you want to download the mbox files regularly, you can use the following url:
https://lists.apache.org/api/mbox.lua?list=dev&domain=subversion.apache.org&d=2022-12Replace the list argument with the name of the list in the table above and change the year/date.
If you only want to receive mail about important announcements (new releases of Subversion, for example), just subscribe to announce@subversion.apache.org.