--- title: "Community" layout: with_toc --- # Getting Help There are many ways to get help from the Apache Flink community. The mailing lists are the primary place where all Flink committers are present. To ask a question there, you have to send an empty subscription email first to *user-subscribe@flink.apache.org*. Once the subscription is confirmed, you can send questions to *user@flink.apache.org*. If you want to talk with the Flink committers and users in a chat, there is a Freenode [IRC channel](#irc) for *#flink*. Some committers are also monitoring [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flink) for Flink related questions. Please remember to tag them with the *[flink](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flink)* tag. [Ask a Question on Stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/?tags=flink). Bugs and feature requests can either be discussed on *dev@flink.apache.org* or on [JIRA]({{ site.FLINK_ISSUES_URL }}). Those interested in contributing to Flink should check out the ["How to contribute" guide](http://localhost:4000/how-to-contribute.html). ## Mailing Lists
Name Subscribe Digest Unsubscribe Post Archive
news@flink.apache.org
News and announcements from the Flink community. 		Subscribe Subscribe Unsubscribe Read only list Archives
user@flink.apache.org
User support and questions mailing list 		Subscribe Subscribe Unsubscribe Post Archives
Nabble Archive
dev@flink.apache.org
Development related discussions 		Subscribe Subscribe Unsubscribe Post Archives
Nabble Archive
issues@flink.apache.org
Mirror of all JIRA activity 		Subscribe Subscribe Unsubscribe Read only list Archives
commits@flink.apache.org
All commits to our Git (code) and SVN (website) repositories 		Subscribe Subscribe Unsubscribe Read only list Archives
## Issues We use JIRA to track all code related issues: {{ site.FLINK_ISSUES_URL }}. All issue activity is also mirrored to the issues mailing list. ## IRC There is an IRC channel called #flink dedicated to Apache Flink at irc.freenode.org. There is also a [web-based IRC client](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=flink) available. The IRC channel can be used for online discussions about Apache Flink as community, but developers should be careful to move or duplicate all the official or useful discussions to the issue tracking system or dev mailing list. ## Team
Name Role Apache ID
Márton Balassi PMC, Committer mbalassi
Paris Carbone Committer senorcarbone
Ufuk Celebi PMC, Committer uce
Stephan Ewen PMC, Committer, VP sewen
Gyula Fóra PMC, Committer gyfora
Alan Gates PMC, Committer gates
Fabian Hueske PMC, Committer fhueske
Vasia Kalavri PMC, Committer vasia
Aljoscha Krettek PMC, Committer aljoscha
Robert Metzger PMC, Committer rmetzger
Maximilian Michels Committer mxm
Till Rohrmann PMC, Committer trohrmann
Henry Saputra PMC, Committer hsaputra
Sebastian Schelter PMC, Committer ssc
Kostas Tzoumas PMC, Committer ktzoumas
Timo Walther PMC, Committer twalthr
Daniel Warneke PMC, Committer warneke
You can reach committers directly at `@apache.org`. A list of all contributors can be found on our GitHub [Contributors]({{ site.FLINK_GITHUB_CONTRIBUTORS_URL }}) page. ##Former mentors The following people were very kind to mentor the project while in incubation.
Name Role Apache ID
Ashutosh Chauhan Former PPMC, Mentor hashutosh
Ted Dunning Former PPMC, Mentor tdunning
Alan Gates Former PPMC, Mentor gates
Owen O'Malley Former PPMC, Mentor omalley
Sean Owen Former PPMC, Mentor srowen
Henry Saputra Former PPMC, Mentor hsaputra