Contact info
The latest version of Allegro can always be found on the Allegro
homepage,
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/.
There are three mailing lists for Allegro-related discussion, each with a
slightly different purpose.
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[AL] - Allegro main -
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alleg-main/.
This list is for any kind of discussion about Allegro, questions about
Allegro, reports of problems with Allegro, suggestions for new
features, announcements of programs written using Allegro, etc.
General rule: if it has to do with Allegro, you can post it here. If
not, go somewhere else (for example comp.os.msdos.djgpp, comp.lang.c,
or the online forums at http://www.allegro.cc/).
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[AD] - Allegro developers -
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alleg-developers/.
This list is for the people currently working on Allegro, who use it to
coordinate their efforts. You can use this address if you need to
contact the developers directly, for example to submit some new code
that you have written or to report a bug.
Unlike the other lists, we will be really rude to people who post
inappropriate material here, so please don't do that! Do not send
tech-support questions to this list. Don't post bug reports here unless
you are 100% certain they aren't your fault (if you are in any doubt,
use the main Allegro list instead, which is read by most of the same
people who are subscribed here).
The Allegro development is a completely open process, and everyone is
welcome to drop by, have a listen, and start contributing code patches.
This list is for working rather than talking, though, so please don't
do anything that might get in our way.
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[Alleg5] - Allegro 5 -
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/alleg-bigfive.
This list was once available for discussing the next major version of
Allegro, when it was too noisy to do so on [AD]. This is no longer the
case so the list has been shut down. However, its archives are still
valuable.
To subscribe to one of the three lists, simply go to it's web page and use
the online forms to subscribe yourself. You can remove yourself from a
list going to the same page above, which can be used to remind you of your
password too, in case you have forgotten it.
To send a message to one of the lists, write to
alleg-main AT lists.sourceforge DOT net or
alleg-developers AT lists.sourceforge DOT net. You don't need to be subscribed to
these mailing lists before you can post there, but it is a good idea to
subscribe in order to see the replies.
Before posting tech-support questions to the Allegro list, please take a
moment to read the guidelines in docs/txt/help.txt. See docs/txt/ahack.txt
for information about the style of code we use, and how to create your
patches.
If you want to search through the archives of any of those mailing lists,
you will have to check the available options at
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/maillist.html.
Please don't send messages in HTML format. The increased size places an
unnecessary load on the server, and many subscribers have a hard time
reading these posts.
Please do not crosspost between these lists. Choose the most appropriate
one for your message, and then send it only to that list.
Please don't send large binary attachments to any of the lists, they will
be rejected by the size limit filter, which is set to 100KB for the
developers mailing list, and 40KB for the others. Upload your files to a
website and then post the URL, or if you can't do that, post an
announcement asking people to write to you privately, and then send the
file by individual email to whoever responded.
Please use English in your messages. You could eventually post messages in
whatever language you prefer, but that would terribly limit the chances of
getting a useful answer.
Remember that the RFC 1855: netiquette guidelines
(
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt) describes other general
guidelines you should follow as a correct internet user (in mailing lists
and other places as well), and provides more verbose descriptions and
explanations about why you should follow the above guidelines.
One of the important guidelines you should be aware of is how to quote
correctly the message you are replying to. The previous RFC doesn't really
explain how to do it, so you might want to read the document "How do I
quote correctly in Usenet?" at
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html. Quoting correctly is
easier to say than to do, especially for users of Microsoft Outlook. If
you are such a user, you can help yourself using the Outlook-QuoteFix
extension written by Dominik Jain, which you can find at
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/.
