Community support

The GeoServer community utilizes multiple channels of communication.

This page should help you find the public communication channel best suited for your needs.

If you are not in a position to communicate in public, please contact one of our commercial support providers.

Code of Conduct

GeoServer communication channels follow the contributor code of conduct. This is the code of conduct policy recommended by OSGeo. In addition please ensure you have read through the guidelines before creating a post.

Security Vulnerabilities

If you encounter a security vulnerability in GeoServer please take care to report in a responsible fashion:

  1. Keep exploit details out of public forums, mailing lists, and issue tracker.
  2. There are two options to report a security vulnerability:
    • Please send an email directly to the volunteers on the private geoserver-security@lists.osgeo.org mailing list. Provide information about the security vulnerability you might have found in your email.
      This is a moderated list: send directly to the address; your email will be moderated; and eventually shared with volunteers.
    • To report via GitHub:
      Navigate to security page, use link for Private vulnerability reporting.
      For more information see GitHub documentation.
  3. There is no expected response time. Be prepared to work with geoserver-security email list volunteers on a solution.
  4. Keep in mind participants are volunteering their time, an extensive fix may require fundraising/resources.

Refer to the GeoServer Security policy.

GeoServer User Forum

This group is for end users of the GeoServer software and focused on topics related to normal GeoServer usage. While its focus is mainly about GeoServer itself, users are also encouraged to post about topics around GeoServer, such as implementations of projects on top of GeoServer.

The GeoServer User forum is hosted on Discourse provided by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The forum contains all 20+ years of content from the archived SourceForge email list.

Discourse Forum Sign In

Discourse allows you to sign-in with credentials you already have:

  1. Login to discourse.osgeo.org:
    • Developers "Log in with GitHub" to use GitHub credentials.
    • Vistors can use Sign Up to create an account for use with the Forum.
    • OSGeo Members use with LDAP sign in with OSGeo UserID.

    OSGeo provides step by step instructions on signing into discourse using GitHub, OSGeo User ID LDAP, or setting up a new account.

    Discourse Login
  2. Navigate to GeoServer / Users to enjoy the forum.
    Discourse Signup
  3. Use New Topic to start a new conversation.
    Only the GeoServer / user subcategory allows new topics. If the New Topic button is disabled you may be looking at the GeoServer top-level category.
  4. To test please send introduce yourself we are looking forward to meeting you.

Discourse use as mailing list

To use email as the primary way of interacting with the GeoServer User forum follow these instructions.
  1. Sign-in to Discourse Forum as above
  2. From your profile Preferences, use the Emails tab to adjust email settings.
    IMPORTANT: Enable Mailing list mode to get all email. This setting avoids missing email when discourse website is open.
    Discourse Email Preferences
  3. Navigate to GeoServer / Users. Click on the bell in the top right corner and change notifications to Watching.
    If you wish to update any email rules the new mailing is user.geoserver.discourse.osgeo.org
    Discourse Notifications
  4. You can then send email geoserver-user@discourse.osgeo.org to start a new topic.
    To test please send an email to introduce yourself (rather than a test message).

Public Question and Answer Forums

The GeoServer community is active on the following question and answer forums:

Perhaps your question has already been answered there?

Social Media

Connect with GeoServer enthusiasts worldwide:

The GeoServer Brazilian community (Portuguese):

Chat

Connect with community members:

Keep in mind these channels are a venue to meet others and it is not intended to be a live question and answer session.