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Getting help

NOTE: The google groups account storm-user@googlegroups.com is now officially deprecated in favor of the Apache-hosted user/dev mailing lists.

Storm Users

Storm users should send messages and subscribe to user@storm.apache.org.

You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to user-subscribe@storm.apache.org. Likewise, you can cancel a subscription by sending an email to user-unsubscribe@storm.apache.org.

You can also browse the archives of the storm-user mailing list.

Storm Developers

Storm developers should send messages and subscribe to dev@storm.apache.org.

You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to dev-subscribe@storm.apache.org. Likewise, you can cancel a subscription by sending an email to dev-unsubscribe@storm.apache.org.

You can also browse the archives of the storm-dev mailing list.

Storm developers who would want to track the JIRA issues should subscribe to issues@storm.apache.org.

You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to issues-subscribe@storm.apache.org. Likewise, you can cancel a subscription by sending an email to issues-unsubscribe@storm.apache.org.

You can view the archives of the mailing list here.

Which list should I send/subscribe to?

If you are using a pre-built binary distribution of Storm, then chances are you should send questions, comments, storm-related announcements, etc. to user@storm.apache.org.

If you are building storm from source, developing new features, or otherwise hacking storm source code, then dev@storm.apache.org is more appropriate.

If you are committers and/or PMCs, or contributors looking for following up and participating development of Storm, then you would want to also subscribe issues@storm.apache.org in addition to dev@storm.apache.org.

What will happen with storm-user@googlegroups.com?

All existing messages will remain archived there, and can be accessed/searched here.

New messages sent to storm-user@googlegroups.com will either be rejected/bounced or replied to with a message to direct the email to the appropriate Apache-hosted group.

IRC

You can also come to the #storm-user room on freenode. You can usually find a Storm developer there to help you out.