Getting help from the community
As an open source project, Pentaho Reporting has a community of people and organizations who contribute by answering questions, providing translations, filing and fixing bugs, writing documentation, and of course, by contributing code. To make sure you can find what you need to engage the Pentaho Reporting community, the following is a list of online places and tools to help you get started.
Asking questions and helping others
Today, there are two primary methods of communication in the Pentaho Reporting community. The first and most widely used method is Pentaho Reporting forums. These forums are located at http://forums.pentaho.org/ under the main category Pentaho Reporting. You can search and read forum discussions, or sign up for an account and ask your own questions.
Another main method of communication is Pentaho's IRC channel, set up by Pentaho community members. This channel is located on the FreeNode IRC (https://freenode.net/), as channel ##pentaho...
