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<h1>Reporting Bugs and Contributing<a class="headerlink" href="#reporting-bugs-and-contributing" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>If you encounter a problem with Cassandra, the first places to ask for help are the <a class="reference internal" href="contactus.html#mailing-lists"><span class="std std-ref">user mailing list</span></a> and the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#cassandra</span></code> <a class="reference internal" href="contactus.html#irc-channels"><span class="std std-ref">IRC channel</span></a>.</p>
<p>If, after having asked for help, you suspect that you have found a bug in Cassandra, you should report it by opening a
ticket through the <a class="reference external" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA">Apache Cassandra JIRA</a>. Please provide as much
details as you can on your problem, and don’t forget to indicate which version of Cassandra you are running and on which
environment.</p>
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