Getting Help - Practical Cassandra - page 195

Appendix A . Getting Help
When you need help with Cassandra, you have quite a few options at your dispos-
al.
Preparing Information
The first thing to do when you are looking for help is to throw together some basic
information. If you are having problems with Cassandra, ensure that you have your
system.log file ready along with your cassandra.yaml. These are two of the more
common sources of information needed.
If you are having trouble getting code to do what you think it should be doing,
be prepared with a little bit of context for what you are trying to do. In addition,
have a code sample ready of what isn't working along with some sample data that
you are trying to access.
IRC
Once you have put together the relevant information, head over to IRC (Internet
Relay Chat). More specifically, you will find a lot of Cassandra users and deve-
lopers on irc.freenode.net hanging out in #cassandra.
Mailing Lists
If IRC isn't your thing, you can always check out one of the Cassandra mailing
lists. There are three primary mailing lists that might be useful.
The Cassandra-users mailing list is a general discussion list for users. This
would likely be the most common place where you would go for help. The list is
available at [e-mail] .
There is also a Cassandra-developers mailing list. This is for people who are
working on the Cassandra code base. The discussion typically revolves around
current development progress and future plans for Cassandra. The list is available
at [e-mail] .
The third mailing list is for driver development. The information in this list
is about current and new drivers being developed for Cassandra. There is also
information here about idiomatic client APIs. The list is available at client-
[e-mail] .