Project Development

GNUstep project, as many open-source software (OSS) is being developed by many developers from all around the world. The project uses various tools for supporting the development.

Main project development page

Contains:

• Bug tracking
• Mailing Lists
• CVS infromation
• Browse CVS Repository
• Patches

• Support request tracking (not used)
• News (not used)
• Tasks (not used)

Mailing Lists

You can sign up with the following mailing lists to ask questions and get answers. Recently GNUstep Mailing Lists are being archived into a searchable GNUstep Forum by Nabble. You can cross browse or search GNUstep discussions there. You can also post questions there which will get forwarded to the corresponding mailing list.

• discuss-gnustep@gnu.org

For all discussions and questions. We also would like to hear about ideas for the applications for the GNUstep environment and related issues.

• info-gnustep@gnu.org

For info and announcements related to GNUstep libraries and applications.

• help-gnustep@gnu.org

For help with GNUstep libraries and applications. This list is rarely read, so it is better to use discuss-gnustep.

• bug-gnustep@gnu.org

A mailing list for submitting bug reports and patches.

• apps-gnustep@gnu.org

For discussion related specifically to GNUstep applications.

• GNUstep developers list

This mailing list has been established to keep the noise low when it comes to core topics and generally boring discussion about technical aspects of GNUstep.

• Desktop

Discussion for a GNUstep-based desktop project

• DGS developers list

This mailing list has been established to keep the noise low when it comes to DGS topics. To subscribe you have to contact The GNUstep Maintainers directly [1]

IRC Channel

You can talk to some (not all use IRC) GNUstep developers on IRC:

Server: irc.freenode.net or irc.gnu.org or irc.debian.org - all are the same network

Channel: #gnustep

Configure your IRC client and join the channel: /join #GNUstep

Examples of IRC clients you can use: xchat (UNICES and Windows), gaim (UNICES and Windows), mirc (Windows) or TalkSoup on GNUstep's LiveCD for Intel.

News Groups

http://www.gmane.org carries the GNUstep mailinglists by NNTP

• comp.lang.objective-c* : The Objective-C language and environment.
• gnu.gnustep.announce* : Info and announcements (Moderated)
• gnu.gnustep.bug* : Bug reports for gnustep.
• gnu.gnustep.discuss* : Discussion of gnustep.
• gnu.gnustep.help* : Requests for help with gnustep.