## Community

### 1.1. Users

If you are a new user and you would like to participate in Tamaya (would be great!), you can have a look at the current [Project Documentation](documentation.html). Apache Tamaya currently does not yet have a users mailing list. If you want discuss your use cases we encourage you to subscribe to our mailing list for developers. Furthermore, you can check our mail-archives.

Before you file a ticket in our Jira please ask on the mailing list if it’s a known issue in case of a bug or if there is an ongoing discussion in case of a feature.

You are very welcome to follow our twitter account @tamayaconf and spread the word of Tamaya with tweets, blog entries,…​

### 1.2. Getting Involved

Everybody is welcome to get involved with our community. You can find general information at http://apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html and http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html. The following sections provides some details about the different levels of getting involved.

If you want to contribute to the Tamaya documentation, please read the documentation.html[instructions about the Documentation] that addresses how to contribute, render and publish it.

#### 1.2.1. Contributors

Before you get a committer you have to contribute to our effort. E.g. you can help users, participate in discussions on the dev list, submit patches,…​ . Therefore, it’s essential to file a Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA) or Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement (CCLA) and send it to secretary at apache dot org (or fax it) as early as possible.

If you would like to submit a patch through Jira, you can have a look at the suggested Git approach.

The lists of current contributors and committers can be found on the contributers page.

#### 1.2.2. Committers

Before you read this section, please ensure that you have read the contributor section. All of you are welcome to join our development effort. Subscribe to our mailing list for developers and start contributing and help users.

Optionally subscribe to our mailing list for commits. Furthermore, you can check our mail-archives.

Further details are available at http://www.apache.org/dev/.

#### 1.2.3. Mailing lists

The table below lists all mailings used by the Tamaya project.

List | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Archive | Mirrors
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Developer List | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Archive |
Committer List | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Archive |

#### 1.2.4. JIRA

Any kind of issue has to be filed in our issue tracker. If you have any question, you can ask us (e.g. via the mailing list for developers).

#### 1.2.5. Spread the word

You are very welcome e.g. to write blog entries, mention our twitter handle @tamayaconf if you tweet about the project or just follow our twitter account @tamayaconf

#### 1.2.6. IRC

Usually discussions happen on the mailing list. Some informal discussions take place in our IRC-Channel irc://irc.freenode.net/apache-tamaya.

    // with the irssi command-line client:
    $ irssi

    > /connect irc.freenode.net
    > /join #apache-tamaya