How To Help

If you're interested in helping out an established, mature open source project, the Amanda community would love your help. There's no need to be a programmer -- some Amanda expertise and a bit of time are all that are required. Here are some ways to help out:

Support

• Join the forums or the mailing lists and help other users learn about Amanda
• Become a Platform Expert to keep Amanda running smoothly on your platform of choice

Write

• Add content to and help organize this wiki
  • Add How Tos
  • Add troubleshooting hints
  • Address some of the articles in need of attention.

Hack

If you'd like to write code for Amanda, join [email protected]. The folks there can give you valuable help and advice on how to proceed.

• Pick something from Tasks that looks interesting.
• Fix that problem that's been bugging you, or add that feature you've always dreamed of.
• Pick up a bug or feature request from the trackers in http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda and work out a patch.