Chapter 10
Further Information
Firebird Development
More information can be found about the Firebird database engine from the Firebird Project website.
If you are interested in being involved in Firebird development, or would like to raise a possible bug for discussion, please feel welcome to join our Firebird-Devel list. To subscribe, simply send an empty email message to:
<firebird-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe>.
Important
Please do not use the firebird-devel list for posting support questions, except if your question happens to be about building Firebird from sources.
The core developers (amongst others!) also hang out in the Firebird-Architect list. This is also a nonsupport list, where architectural features and changes are discussed, often with great vehemence. See the next section for list subscription information.
Lists and Newsgroups
For technical support, please join the firebird-support list by going to the Lists and Newsgroups index page at the Firebird website and clicking on the link to join the Firebird-support list. The Firebird-support list handles technical problems with Firebird and also InterBase®.
At the Lists and Newsgroups index page you will find links to all of the more specialised lists as well: Fire- bird-Java for Jaybird support, Firebird-NET-Provider, Firebird-ODBC-devel, Firebird-PHP, Firebird-Python, etc., as well as lists for the various Delphi interface components.
The open source community operates several other discussion lists on various aspects of Firebird development. For details, please refer to the Lists and Newsgroups index page.
Newsgroup Mirrors
The Firebird developers' list and the general community lists, along with some other lists of interest to Firebird and InterBase developers, are mirrored as newsgroups at the news. atkin.com news server. For historical reasons, some of them have weird names, e.g. "egroups.ibsupport" is the mirror for the firebird-support list.
Tip
If you want to post messages from a news mirror to the list, you must be subscribed to that list.
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