OpenSG System

Information

All the project management is done with the help of the service provided by VA Linux. Thus the main information infrastructure is also hosted on the SourceForge OpenSG homepage.

There are a number of ways to get information about the system:

Mailing Lists
TWiki
IRC

Mailing Lists

We use a number of mailing lists for communication. The search form at the top-left of the sourceforge site can be used to search a mailing list when you are viewing its archive.

The opensg-announce list is used for major announcements like new releases or event announcements. The volume is expected to be around 1 mail per month or less. If you don't want to use OpenSG right now but want to be kept up-to-date on what's happening in the broader sense, this is a useful list to be on.
The archive is here. To subscribe, go here.

The opensg-news list is used for more regular updates, also of minor nature. We try to post an update of what's happened about once a week. Depending on how much is happening it might be a little more or less often, but the target frequency is about one mail per week. Subscribe to this list if you're using the system and want to keep a feeling about what's happening. This is not the list for discussions about problems, use opensg-users for that.
The archive is here. To subscribe, go here.

The opensg-users list is used for communication among the users and developers of the system. If you have questions on how to do something or if you have problems doing something, this is the place to ask. You can also discuss feature requests or extension ideas here.
The archive is here. To subscribe, go here.

The opensg-dailybuild list is used for distributing problems with the daily builds. It is mainly for the core team to make sure the system compiles on all supported platforms.
The archive is here. To subscribe, go here.

And finally there's the opensg-commits list. It is an automated service that automatically sends a mail whenever something is checked into the CVS. Subscribe if you really, REALLY want to know what's going on. This is probably a good candidate for digest subscription.
The archive is here. To subscribe, go here.

TWiki

We also have an OpenSG TWiki site to document longer discussions and other longer-winded topics. TWiki is a web-based collaborative text editing tool that supports some nice features to simplify webpage structuring and supports editing from a web browser.
It is rather new and a little unsorted right now, so bear with us while we get used to it.

IRC

If you have a quick question you can try to find us in the channel #OpenSG on GalaxyNet (www.galaxynet.org). There's not always somebody there who can help, but most of the time (one of the advantages of a geographically spread development team :-).