Monthly Status Updates/May 2007

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

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 and organized the User documentation, Developer documentation, Amanda log files, and Installation portals and linked pages, with help from User:Chogendyk.
• The new Platform Experts program started to take off, with six registered experts agreeing to test 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.
• User:Dustin ported a large number of FAQs from the amanda.org documentation and performed significant work on the Amanda Index, Curinfo, and Encryption articles.