ubuntu-devel moderation procedures

The [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-December/000227.html charter] of ubuntu-devel is as follows:

• Discussions among Ubuntu developers about their projects
• Developer questions about Ubuntu policies and procedures
• Discussions seeking consensus among Ubuntu developers
• Point of contact for upstream developers to reach Ubuntu developers
• Open to all to subscribe, posting moderated for non-developers

Compare this with the charter of ubuntu-devel-discuss:

• Sharing of experiences with the current development branch of Ubuntu
• Technical questions about new features in the development branch
• Ideas and suggestions about future development of Ubuntu
• Point of contact for Ubuntu users to reach Ubuntu developers
• Open to all to subscribe, posting moderated for non-subscribers

Since many people can moderate ubuntu-devel, this page attempts to serve as a central repository of ubuntu-devel moderation practices in order to ensure that moderation is reasonably consistent.

Inappropriate support request

This should be used when end users mail ubuntu-devel with problems which would be better handled as support requests or as bugs.

ubuntu-devel is not a support address; I suggest asking ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com or https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu for help, or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you wish to file a bug.

Bug report

Sometimes people recognise that a problem is a bug, but don't know where to send it and so mail ubuntu-devel.

Thank you for your bug report. However, we cannot effectively track bug reports sent to mailing lists. Please file this bug report on the appropriate package at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu instead.

Non-Ubuntu development help request

People sometimes mail ubuntu-devel for help with development on Ubuntu rather than development of Ubuntu: for example, help with shell scripting or C programming.

ubuntu-devel is not a general forum for discussion of developing programs on Ubuntu; it is only for developing Ubuntu itself. You will probably have better luck searching for documentation on the tool you're using, or for a forum devoted to it.