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When using or contributing to ShardingSphere, if you encounter any problem, or you have any suggestions or new ideas, you can use the Apache mailing-list to participate in the community building, or join the ShardingSphere Slack channel to connect with other community members.
To join the mailing list:
Send an e-mail to subscribe. Use your mailbox to send an e-mail to [email protected] with any subject or content.
Receive and reply the confirmation e-mail. After Step 1, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from [email protected] (if you have not received the email, please check “RSS feeds”, “junk e-mail” or other items). Reply to that e-mail directly or click the link in the e-mail to reply, with any subject or content.
Receive the welcome e-mail.
After finishing the two steps above, an e-mail with the subject of WELCOME to [email protected] will be sent to your e-mail address. You'll have then succeeded in subscribing to the Apache ShardingSphere mailing-list.
You now can interact with community by your subscribed email or track email conversations by Archived email list or Slack.