Support

Mailing lists

Much of the work that goes into making Ubuntu a success happens on mailing lists. You can subscribe to a list in normal or digest mode, or review the archives for past discussions.

Please read the guidelines for use of the mailing lists at the etiquette page.

The full list of Ubuntu mailing lists can be found at lists.ubuntu.com and on Gmane as gmane.linux.ubuntu.

For mailing lists and IRC support in languages other than English, please see: local language support.

Announcement-only lists

Ubuntu Security Announcement list:

• The ubuntu-security-announce receives only announcements of security updates to Ubuntu releases. If you are an administrator for multiple machines we strongly recommend you subscribe to this list to be notified of critical updates that may affect your system security.

Ubuntu Announcement list:

• The ubuntu-announce list has very few emails (less than one a month, usually) and will keep you up to date on new releases of Ubuntu, and significant new developments.

Ubuntu News

• The ubuntu-news list is a low volume list, primarily for the Ubuntu Weekly News.

User lists

• The ubuntu-users list is where most technical support discussions occur, and where users of Ubuntu meet to discuss new features and ideas they would like implemented in Ubuntu. NB: this is a very high traffic mailing list! It gets around 200 messages a day. If you prefer a lower email load, try the Ubuntu Web forums.

Developer lists

• The ubuntu-devel mailing list is for discussions among Ubuntu developers about their projects. This is a moderated mailing list.

  The ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list is for community discussion and suggestions about the future development of Ubuntu.

  The package upload and automatic notification mailing lists contain the archive upload notifications for each version of Ubuntu. This lists are primarily used for Ubuntu development.

  The ubuntu-motu mailing list is for getting involved in packaging and development on Ubuntu.