Asking questions and reporting issues

There are three primary places where the Salt community gets together to discuss the software and help each other out: the mailing list, the IRC chat room, and the issue tracker on GitHub.

There are three types of messages that you will generally find in these places: questions about the software, bug reports, and feature requests. In general, questions about the software should be asked either on the mailing list or in IRC. Bug reports and feature requests are better suited to the issue tracker.

Using the mailing list

The salt-users mailing list is a very active discussion environment, hosted on Google Groups. The mailing list can be found at:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/salt-users

You can browse the mailing list at the preceding link, or you can set up an e-mail subscription and get messages sent to your inbox, where you can reply to them. There are, typically, a good dozen or so e-mails a day, so if that sounds like too many, then maybe just looking...