Getting Help

How to engage with the Pants community.

The Pants community is friendly, welcoming, and passionate about improving the craft of software engineering. If you need help with anything Pants-related, you've come to the right place. We'd love to hear from you!

Slack​

The best place to become acquainted with Pants community members, exchange informal chat and ask quick questions is at the project's Slack. You can join using this link.

We encourage you to introduce yourself in the #welcome channel!

Discussions​

The best place to ask deeper technical questions or hold design discussions is via the project's GitHub Discussions. While questions, feedback, and design discussions are equally welcome on Slack, we encourage you to choose Discussions whenever it's likely other users would benefit from persistent access to the conversation. GitHub Discussions is indexed by search engines, and its content is retained long-term, so this is opportunity to help your fellow Pants users by making it easier for folks to discover supplementary technical information beyond the docs.

We encourage you to introduce yourself in the "welcome" category!

Blog​

Read blog.pantsbuild.org to find elaboration on new features, tutorials, reveals of upcoming features, insights into what we're thinking about and working on, case studies, and behind-the-scenes interviews with Pants users and maintainers.

Mailing list​

You can join the [email protected] mailing list here. This is used mostly for announcements and for us to solicit user feedback.

GitHub Repository​

Pants is an open-source software project, developed at https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants.

If you discover a bug with Pants or have a feature request, feel free to file an issue. Please check first if a similar issue has already been filed; if it has, please comment so that we know to bump the issue in priority.

YouTube​

We also have a Pants Build YouTube channel with a variety of concise tutorials, introductions to core concepts, and tips. Subscribe to the channel to get notified of additions.

Have an idea or request for a future video topic? Bring it up on the Slack! We'd love to know what you're wondering about.

About us​

Learn more about the Pants community.