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There's a bit of rearrangements going on Freeciv's mailing lists http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/Freeciv:Community_Portal

First change is that the freeciv-maintainers list will be replaced by a new freeciv-private list. The function remains the same. This is our only non-public mailing list, with only maintainers having access to mails sent there. Non-subscribers can send to the list in case there's something that should not be discussed in the public lists, e.g., reporting security vulnerabilities.
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On other communication channel news, we got access to our twitter account to our current team. https://twitter.com/freeciv
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One general note about the mailing lists is that if there's no good reason to send email to a specific maintainer's private email, use the dedicated list. You want your message to reach relevant people, and all of them. Public freeciv development discussion should go to freeciv-dev, things like reports of security vulnerabities to freeciv-private (previously freeciv-maintainers).
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Five years after gna.org shutdown we still have not fully recovered from the hurried migration to other services. One of the bigger issues we've had to this day has been lack of mailing list for commit messages.

This week I finally managed to work around incompatibilities of the providers of the different services, and while the solution is a bit complex, it seems to work. We did not create separate mailing list for this as there currently isn't important use-case for having a list strictly limited to commit messages (I think some earlier incarnations of freeciv-commits were used in the process of creating ReleaseNotes). Instead those messages are delivered to freeciv-dev list.

So now it's possible to follow what gets committed to freeciv repo by subscribing to freeciv-dev mailing list at https://www.freelists.org/list/freeciv-dev
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About our crumbling services in general: For over a decade I've been hoping for some person interested in DevOps side would join the project. As that has never happened, I've now started looking that stuff myself. That will be one of my focus areas in the project for most of what remains of this year.
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