MinGW - Mailing Lists & Forums
There are several mailing lists available for the MinGW users; the searchable on-line archives provide a very useful resource. You can either use the search form to the left of this page or you can click on the archive link and use the search from in the upper left corner of the SF site. If the archive links appear broken, it is due to SF Maintenance on the site.
Mailing List Etiquette
MinGW is an open source project, as such people are dedicating their SPARE time to the goals and development of the project, please keep that in mind when posting. The lists are for the benefit of the MinGW community, judge yourself accordingly in both posting and responding to others. Please do not post any comments which slander this project or any other as they will not be tolerated. Because there is a great deal of information in the lists please use the search facility prior to posting a question to ensure the question has not already been answered in a previous thread.
MinGW Mailing Lists
MinGW-users: This is the general mailing list for MinGW users. Please search the archives before posting. gmane alternative search
MinGW-msys: This is the general mailing list for MSYS users. Please search the archives before posting. gmane alternative search
MinGW-dvlpr: This is a private mailing list for MinGW developers. You can check what the developers are discussing at the archives. gmane alternative search
MinGW-patches: This list is to be used to discuss patches. You can check previous patches in the archives. gmane alternative search
MinGW-editor: This list is a private list used to discuss changes to the MinGW site and documentation. You can check out proposed changes in the archives.
MinGW-cvs: This is a notification list for cvs changes. There are no archives for this list.
MinGW-notify: This is a notification list for sourceforge.net control changes. There are archives so you can know what happened to a bug report or a patch, etc.
Forums
You are welcome to use theses forums for the benefit of discussing particulars about the referenced link. You are encouraged to encourage each other to stay On Topic. There is no guarantee that an expert is monitoring this list. However, the MinGW team will consider all questions important and will hope to direct you in some way to an answer. These forums should eventually show up in the nntp.sourceforge.net news service. The only supported clients at this time for this service are Outlook and Mozilla. The SourceForge news service is still in beta mode.
Other Lists of Interest
Cygwin: The development tools for MinGW and Cygwin share the same backend, and so there is a lot of cooperation between these two projecs. MinGW started out as a Cygwin "sub-target".
GCC: There are various lists for GCC that you can use to post compiler-specific bugs.
Binutils: The GNU binutils groups maintains a few mailing lists.