* Contribute to this wiki! That is probably the most direct and quick way to contribute. Your experience helps others install and run their HDA!
* Share your experience in the area or running a server and answer questions in the [http://forums.amahi.org community forums] or in the [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amahi-users users mailing list]. If you are an experienced user, others will appreciate your efforts and this will make the project more usable and successful in the long run
* Talk about Amahi! Let people know what Amahi is about, help them install their HDA
* Promote Amahi, such as doing a presentation to your local LUG (Linux User Group), share your presentation with others!
* Blog or tweet about your experience with Amahi
* Make recommendations
* Do reviews or HOWTOs
* Help us create a polished "press kit" of sorts that we can give when managines magazines and website editors ask us about Amahi
* [[How to Create a new Theme|Create a theme or two]]
* Help us write a "manual" so that it's printable (in pdf and also [http://lulu.com, in paper])
* Submit to other sites that may like it! :-)
Aside from the above, there are two major ways to contribute in a more active role.
= Becoming an Application Maintainer Types of Contributor =
* This is very easy. If you are an expert, or even if you only know the basics We have three types of some application installation and configurationcontributor, this is a great way to contribute* Get in touch with <code>support at amahi dot org</code> indicating what application you would like from less involved to maintain and we will set you up as a application maintainermore involved:
= Contributing Code =* '''Editor:''' editing the apps "visual" part for English readability, HTML validation, logo/screenshot "shininess" and generally making beta apps look good* '''Tester''': testing, rating and sending feedback on beta apps* '''Packager''': packaging apps. no programming required
* Join You can become any (or all) of these three roles by making yourself known to the [https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=amahi-devel amahi-devel list]* Grab a copy of community in the git repo git clone git://git.amahi.org/amahi.git* Get yourself familiar with forums or in the pieces, IRC channel and ask questionsasking to become a contributor!* Make some changes to the code, then test them:* e.g. for testing the platform:
cd platform= Becoming an Application Packager/platform/html ./script/serverContributor =
* This is very easy. Whether you are an expert or you only know the basics of some application installation and access it at http://hda:3000configuration, this is a great way to contribute* Read the [[Application Contributor]] Guide
* You can see your changes with two git tools: status and diff= Other Ways to Contribute =
git statusWhat if I want to contribute but don't have the time to package an app?
this gives Well here's a solution: you can find some apps for our developement team to package and we can do that for you. All you have to do is supply a link to the apps homepage and we will jump right on it. [[New_App_Ideas|NEW app ideas]] to add you app ideas to the list of what files were modified, added or removed. you can see changes in your area with:Any and all apps are ok.
git diff --cached when you know you want to modify a file, you add it to the changes to be committed: git add README (for example) for the parts that are added and checked in, you can see the changes with git diff this is what will be committed! * Then commit your changes to your git repo: git commit * After that you can generate a patch to be sent upstream, e.g. for a patch of the latest commit: git format-patch HEAD^..HEAD This will generate a file called 0001-my-patch.mbox or similar (type ls -l 00*), which then you can email or pastebin it to someone to be committed upstream. * Please note, your name and email WILL be officially in the [http://git.amahi.org amahi git repo] as as contributor, which mean it's in the open and it's crawlable, so please use your name/email accordingly.= Contributing Code =
* For more details, ask in the Follow this page to [http://forums.amahi.org forums[contribute code], [https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=amahi-devel amahi-devel list], or come by the [http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23amahi&noServerNotices=true&noServerMotd=true&autoConnect=true IRC channel]
