Developer documentation

Introduction How To Help - How can you get involved? Development Tasks - Stuff that needs doing. Fork Amanda on Github - Easiest way to start hacking Coding Guidelines - Things every developer should know Software architecture - How Amanda fits together Perl Interface - Amanda's being rewritten in Perl! Testing - How we keep Amanda functioning correctly. Build Requirements - The tools you'll need to develop. Licensing your Contribution API Documentation POD for HEAD (2.6.0, 2.6.1) Changer API Transfer Architecture (XFA) Device API Application API (under development) Script API Configuration API Security API Protocols, Formats, etc. Driver-Taper protocol Amandad Service Protocol - how amandad communicates with services amindexd protocol amidxtaped protocol DirectTCP Log Files Tapespec Notes These are notes from development conversations in the past; they can help figure out why things are the way they are, but they are not designed as documentation. REQ packet format update Planner Notes Tape Driver Semantics

Developer Resources Community amanda-hackers mailing list sourceforge project page Platform Experts Tools Lint Valgrind Glib-2.2.0 documentation Presentations Perl in the Amanda Core (2008-01-18, Dustin J. Mitchell) Amanda Development (UM-LUG) (2008-03-26, Dustin J. Mitchell)

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