# upgrade/maintain the application

Here are some details on each step ..

Chances are you know what application you'd like to see running on Amahi! Contact us and we'll help you become the named contributor for that application.

Of course, the application you submit MUST be able to be legally distributed through the "one-click" mechanism. In most cases the application will be made available under an open source license that allows this.

Send an email to ''support at amahi.org'', or find us in the IRC channel, indicating the application that you would like to become a contributor for, and some details on your level of experience. It may also be a good ideas to discuss in the [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=6 developer forum] or the amahi-devel mailing list.

The core Amahi team needs to get to know you a bit and review what you do. Applications are trust-based and we must ensure that applications do not do anything malicious (intentionally or not!). Chances are we'll give you access to the contributor area of amahi.org and you can proceed from there.

Packaging the application for deployment on Amahi involves

* Naming the application and describing it (short/long descriptions)

For a more detailed explanation refer to [[Package Application Documentation]]

Once you have packaged the application and you can "one-click" install it yourself you;re ready to release it to a "test community." This is a group of Amahi users who have volunteered to test new application installations.

The core Amahi team will review the application and then make it visible to the broad base of the Amahi user community. At this stage any member of the community can select the application for installation on their Amahi installation.

Once the application is released you will be able to

* see the number of users who have tested the application