This is a general-purpose discussion list for CiviCRM development. It's a good catch-all for discussions about planning, architecture, testing, refactoring, new features, etc.
For questions and recommendations about existing features, hooks, and APIs, please use civicrm.stackexchange.com.
For discussions about most bugs and patches, please use issues.civicrm.org.
There are also some focused lists for discussion of specific topics:
- civicrm-api: Public data APIs
- civicrm-docs: Developer docs
- civicrm-intl: Internationalization
- civicrm-infra: civicrm.org infrastructure
- civicrm-lts: Long-term support and backporting
- money: Payment-processing and accounting
Pro-tips for developer discussions on mailing-lists:
- Discussions about specific bugs or patches should usually go to JIRA issues or Github pull-requests. However, if something seems particularly important or broad, then you may want to share with the list. Include a link to the JIRA issue or pull-request as appropriate.
- If you want to include code-snippets which are moderately long, consider posting through http://gist.github.com/ or http://pastie.org/ to make the code more readable. However, those systems don't have good discussion features. Direct comments to the list.