For those of you who might have been wondering if openEHR had gone silent in the last few weeks, and/or noticed a stream of annoying test messages, we have in fact had a nasty mail list problem which we resolved yesterday. This problem had the effect of silently failing to email a large proportion of both the clinical and technical lists. For the technically-minded, our system administrator uncovered a bug in the bulk mailer software where it silently failed if no domain was found in the DNS for an address (there was one address which started doing this, probably near the end of June); this was only apparent on sendmail debug level 15 (the highest).
Apologies for the poor functioning of the lists in recent weeks; the problems have now been resolved and new measures put in place to prevent such occurrences. I suggest to evreyone who has not been receiving messages in the last few days on the technical list to have a look at the web archive, as there are one or two important announcements there - see http://www.openehr.org/advice/openehr-technical/maillist.html - I suggest you check backwards to 22 June 05, which is the last date some people received messages. Two announcements of global interest are:
about subversion - http://www.openehr.org/advice/openehr-technical/msg01588.html
about release 0.96 - http://www.openehr.org/advice/openehr-technical/msg01594.html
Let's look forward to lively discussion in the future - things are moving fast in the world of openEHR...
- thomas beale