Mailing Lists and Messaging

Note: Despite the page title referencing IRC, the Lustre community has largely moved from IRC to Slack. The primary Slack workspace is lustre.slack.com. See the Slack section below for join links.

Mailing Lists

General

• lustre-announce A low traffic announcements-only mailing list. Keep up to date with the latest Lustre news and events.
  • lustre-announce archives
• lustre-discuss The main mailing list for Lustre users and administrators. Discuss all aspects of designing, installing, configuring, using, and maintaining a Lustre filesystem.
  • lustre-discuss archives
• lustre-devel The primary mailing list for discussing Lustre software development.
  • lustre-devel archives

Working Groups

• lwg The OpenSFS Lustre Working Group (LWG) is the place the where the participants of OpenSFS come together to coordinate their software development efforts for the Lustre high-performance, Open Source, parallel filesystem.
• dwg The OpenSFS Documentation Working Group (DWG) allows collaboration to improve the Lustre Operations Manual and other Lustre-related documentation (this wiki, man pages, etc.) to help new and experienced Lustre users find the information they need.
• lustre-org The Lustre.org Working Group (LOWG) manages the lustre.org web domain and its associated content.

Slack

Linux Lustre Client Slack channel

• Drop by and say hello, and talk about Lustre development.
• Link to joining the Slack channel