Monthly Status Updates/May 2007

May 2007 saw the release of Amanda 2.5.2, which was followed by a flurry of development activity in CVS.

Wiki Changes

• Taper scan algorithm was supplemented with additional text, mostly by User:Choogendyk, with some additional contributions from User:Ian.
• The new Coding Guidelines portal, mostly written by User:Dustin, provides information useful to new Amanda developers about various generally useful functions available in the codebase.
• User:Dustin significantly expanded the User documentation and Developer documentation portals.
• The new Platform Experts program started to take off, with six registered experts testing 10 platforms.
• The new How To Help page, by User:Dustin provides an outlet for new contributors of all strokes.
• User:Paul Bijnens wrote some text about the "Warning - block NNN is beyond the end of DEVICE" message from dump.