Contact Information

Email

For XZ related topics, including security issues, please email xz at tukaani dot org. It is forwarded to Lasse Collin and Jia Tan.

GitHub

The repositories of the XZ projects are hosted on GitHub under the Tukaani organization.

IRC

The projects' IRC channel is #tukaani on Libera Chat. The channel is sometimes quiet, but the maintainers and several members of the community are usually connected. If you do not receive a reply to a question, try sending an email or opening an Issue on GitHub.

The IRC nicks of the project members:


Mailing Lists


xz-devel

xz-devel is for general discussion about any of the XZ projects or the .xz file format.

Archives of the old posts are available in The Mail Archive.

Steps to subscribe to the xz-devel mailing list:

  1. Email the line subscribe xz-devel in the message body (subject is ignored) to majordomo at tukaani dot org.
  2. You should receive a reply that asks you to send another email to confirm subscription. Follow the instructions in this email.
  3. Majordomo should reply with Succeeded.

Note: make sure that there are no leading spaces on the "auth" line when replying to the first message (Majordomo is picky).

You can unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe xz-devel in the message body to majordomo at tukaani dot org.

Subscribers can post to the list by sending email to xz-devel at tukaani dot org.

Note:
  • You must subscribe to the list to be able to post. This is to minimize spam.
  • A few big email services (including GMail) occasionally consider the messages to be spam. Sometimes the messages are completely blocked.
  • Write in English.
  • Use plain text (no HTML email).
  • Avoid top posting.
  • Now that the projects are on GitHub, xz-devel is not very active.

xz-announce

xz-announce is for release announcements of XZ Utils. This is a very low volume list with only a couple of messages per year. Messages sent to this list are sent also to xz-devel, so there's no need to subscribe to both lists. Send access to this list is restricted to just the XZ maintainers.

Steps to subscribe to the xz-announce mailing list:

  1. Email the line subscribe xz-announce in the message body (subject is ignored) to majordomo at tukaani dot org.
  2. Receive a response that asks you to send another email to confirm the subscription. Follow the instructions in this email.
  3. Majordomo should reply with Succeeded.

Unsubscribing is done by sending unsubscribe xz-announce in the message body.