You can connect to chat room #hadoop on IRC. 
There're many people on that channel. 

Cheers

On May 18, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Pankti Majmudar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am a newbie to open source development and Hadoop.  I was looking at the
> newbie issues on JIRA and would like to pick up one of the minor bugs.
> 
> I referred to the 'How To Contribute' page on Apache and started with
> getting the source code and setting the environment up.  Please let me know
> if there are any sources(IRCs etc) where I can ask for specific help and
> discuss about fixing any issue/bug.  Is the mailing list the only method
> for communicating or asking questions?
> 
> Any pointers will be helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pankti

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