# Community

Welcome to the hawtio community! We love contributions!

How To Contribute

Please dive in wherever takes your fancy! It's hawt but stay cool!

## Issue Tracker

The project tracks bugs, feature requests, and other issues through the Github issue tracking system.

hawtio issue tracker

To file new issues or comment on existing issues you need to register for a Github account which is quick and easy!

## Mailing List

We prefer to use the issue tracker for dealing with ideas and issues, but if you just want to chat about all things hawtio please join us on the mailing list. Its pretty low volume though as we love github issues

hawtio mailing list

## Chat (IRC)

We invite you to join us in the #hawtio channel on irc.freenode.net to chat about hawtio

This channel is logged to transcripts.jboss.org by JBossBot. The JBossBot is also present to expand issue numbers from the issue tracker.

## Stack Overflow

We also keep an eye out on Stack Overflow for questions which makes it really easy to find answers to questions and commonly found problems. Though if you're running into an issue please use our issue tracker instead.

Stack Overflow

## Source Repository

All the hawtio source code is managed using the distributed version system git and hosted on github.

hawtio @ github

Both git and Github are awesome for collaboration! To make improvements or bug fixes to the hawtio project, simply fork the project, commit your changes, and send a pull request.