Community support
The GeoServer community utilizes multiple channels of communication. This page should help you find the channel best suited for your needs.
Mailing Lists
Email is the primary form of communication for GeoServer users and developers. Being an open community means that sending email to an individual developer is discouraged. Instead all email communication should take place on the email lists. If you have a question are chances are someone else has the same question.
If you are not in position to communicate in public please contact one of our commercial support vendors.
If you encounter a security vulnerability in GeoServer please take care to report in a responsible fashion:
Please send a mail directly to geoserver-security@lists.osgeo.org (moderated list with no possibility to subscribe, please just send directly to the address, the mail will be evaluated and eventually posted) and provide information about the security issue you might have found there.
This list is for end users of the GeoServer software and focused on topics
related to normal GeoServer usage. While it's focused mainly about GeoServer itself it
is also encouraged for users to post about topics around GeoServer, such as
implementations of projects on top of GeoServer.
Responsible Disclosure of Security Issues
User List
Do not report security vulnerabilities here. See the Responsible disclosure instructions above.
Question and Answer Forum
The GeoServer community is active on the following question and answer forums:
- gis.stackexchange.com #geoserver tag
- stackoverflow.com #geoserver tag
Perhaps your question has already been answered?
Chat
Connect with community members:
- The Spatial Community is an active slack group, drop into the #geoserver channel and introduce yourself.
- OSGeo maintains a Freenode #osgeo channel on "IRC". Use your IRC client to connect, or the provided [matrix] bridge to access from Riot.IM or slack.
Keep in mind this is a venue to meet others and not intended to be a live question and answer session.