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323
324      <h3><a name="thread" id="thread">Thread development</a> (threads-devel)
325      list</h3>A seperate developer mailing list for <a href=
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341
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343      <h3><a name="testing" id="testing">Testing</a> list</h3>
344
345      <p>The setup, procedures and tools necessary for running Boost
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351
352      <p><b>Important:</b> questions relevant to a wider audience, including
353      questions about Boost.Test framework or test results for a particular
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357      "http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing">Searchable
358      Archives</a> are available on <a href="http://www.gmane.org">GMane</a>.
359
360      <h3>Boost Subversion Commit Messages</h3>
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362      href="http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-commit">boost-commit</a>
363      mailing list receives messages whenever a change is committed to
364      the Boost Subversion repository.</p>
365
366    </dd>
367  </dl>
368
369  <h2>Boost <a name="sandbox" id="sandbox">Sandbox</a></h2>
370
371  <p>In addition to the main <a href="getting_started.html#CVS">Boost CVS
372  repository</a>, a separate Sandbox is available for Boost developers
373  wishing to collaborate on projects prior to formal acceptance of a new
374  library.&nbsp; Read-only access is available via Subversion and web browser at
375 <a href=
376  "http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox">http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox</a>.
377
378  <p>Developer access to the sandbox uses the Subversion repository
379  at <a href=
380  "https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox">https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox</a>. For more information about the Boost Subversion repository,
381  please
382  see <a href="http://svn.boost.org">http://svn.boost.org</a>.</p>
383
384  <h2>#boost <a name="IRC" id="IRC">IRC</a> channel</h2>
385
386  <p>In addition to the mailing lists presented above, a #boost IRC channel on
387  <a href="http://freenode.net">freenode</a> is frequented by some boost users.
388  As usual with IRC channels, one should not necessarily expect that his questions
389  will be answered. The channel is not moderated.</p>
390  <hr>
391
392  <p>Revised
393    <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y"
394    startspan -->04 December, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan
395    i-checksum="39365" --></p>
396
397  <p>Copyright Beman Dawes and David Abrahams 2001-2005</p>
398
399  <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
400     accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy
401     at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</p>
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