| = James Basic Server — Where to get help |
| :navtitle: Help |
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| //// |
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| This information is based on the email discussion from here: |
| --> https://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg66420.html |
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| However, I am not satisfied that I have properly captured the community's |
| opinion, and there are only a few people who have contributed to the |
| thread. |
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| Would be good to have some comments on this content. |
| |
| It could just be that I don't like the content. But if that is what the |
| community thinks, then that is what we should write. |
| |
| //// |
| |
| //// |
| Comment this out until there is agreement. |
| == Warning |
| |
| Please note that if you want to try to use James, you are pretty |
| much on your own. |
| |
| James is intended for use only by the current committers, or perhaps only by |
| competent developers only who have the ability to understand the code as it |
| exists now and can make changes themselves without any help. What you see |
| is what you get. Take it or leave it. |
| |
| The James Community is made up of people who "scratch their own itch". |
| If you have a problem with the code or the documentation, then please |
| step up and fix it rather than asking for help. |
| |
| If you are a user who wants to try to use James, you should seriously |
| consider hiring a professional organization to help you. Most likely, |
| James is not for you. |
| |
| You can try filing issues, but there is absolutely no guarantee it will be |
| fixed. If you are lucky and a developer has the same problem as you, then |
| it may be fixed. Or if one of the developers is feeling particularly generous and wants |
| to volunteer their valuable time to help you, it may happen. There is no |
| way to know unless you try. |
| |
| On the other hand, the developers would **love** for you to do stuff that |
| they are not interested in doing, like documentation. If you don't know anything |
| about the code, it would be a good way to help out until you can eventually |
| join the exclusive committer club, too. |
| //// |
| |
| (Redo this once there is consensus in the community.) |
