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title: How get and give help around Quarkus

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# How get and give help around Quarkus

Since Quarkus went 1.0 in 2019 the interest around Quarkus kept increasing and we are very happy to see the massive interest.

This massive interest leads to increased questions from users and that is all good; but recently more and more questions gets asked directly to Quarkus committers rather than use more appropriate communication channels.

This doc is to document the existing proper channels for getting help around Quarkus and give some tips & tricks to contributors on how to deal with unsolicited direct pings.

## Where to get help as Quarkus user

https://quarkus.io/support/ has all the right links, but to just repeat the main points:

The primary place to post questions about Quarkus is using the [quarkus] tag on Stackoverflow.


## How to provide help as a Quarkus contributor




## How to respond to direct pings

Be friendly and courteous; the person pinged you for a reason but are in most cases probably not aware of the proper channels or is in a for them pressed situation. 
