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Apache Arrow Community

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We welcome participation from everyone and encourage you to join us, ask questions, and get involved.

All participation in the Apache Arrow project is governed by the Apache Software Foundation's code of conduct.

Questions?

Mailing lists

These arrow.apache.org mailing lists are for project discussion:

• user@ is for questions on using Apache Arrow libraries {% include mailing_list_links.html list="user" %}
• dev@ is for discussions about contributing to the project development {% include mailing_list_links.html list="dev" %}

When emailing one of the lists, you may want to prefix the subject line with one or more tags, like [C++] why did this segfault?, [Python] trouble with wheels, etc., so that the appropriate people in the community notice the message.

You may also wish to subscribe to these lists, which capture some activity streams:

• issues@ for the creation of GitHub issues {% include mailing_list_links.html list="issues" %}
• commits@ for commits to the apache/arrow and apache/arrow-site repositories (typically to master only) {% include mailing_list_links.html list="commits" %}
• builds@ for nightly build reports {% include mailing_list_links.html list="builds" %}

In addition, we have some "firehose" lists, which exist so that development activity is captured in email form for archival purposes.

• github@ for all activity on the GitHub repositories {% include mailing_list_links.html list="github" %}

Stack Overflow

For questions on how to use Arrow libraries, you may want to use the Stack Overflow tag apache-arrow in addition to the programming language. Some languages and subprojects may have their own tags (for example, pyarrow).

GitHub issues

We use GitHub issues as a way to ask questions and engage with the Arrow developer community and for maintaining a queue of development work and as the public record of work on the project. We use the mailing lists for development discussions, where a lengthy discussions is required.

Contributing

As mentioned above, we use GitHub for our issue tracker and for source control. See the [contribution guidelines]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/developers/contributing.html) for more.