How can I help the Squid Project?

The Squid project is run mostly by volunteers who donate their time and resources to a variety of activities. You've a few options if you'd like to help out.

Participate in Development

The most obvious way! Sign up for a Sourceforge account and subscribe to the squid-dev mailing list. We'll gladly help interested parties in coding up their little corner of the Squid web-cache and get it integrated into the mainline branch.

There's a whole lot of bugs in the Squid Bugzilla which could benefit from some love and attention.

The Squid Wiki is a repository of frequently asked questions, configuration examples and other documentation which could always do with a little more attention. Create an account and contact the Wiki sitemaster to give you write access.

Be a tester

Testing code is just as important as writing it. A lot of our problem reports stem from users who only upgrade to "release" versions (which, if you think about it, is perfectly understandable.) What would be beneficial is more users willing to run test code and provide feedback on its performance and bugginess. We could then catch more of the problems before code is officially released as stable.

Just remember - "stable" code is what -we- think is stable, and if no-one tells us otherwise..

Submit articles

This website will soon have an article corner covering a wide range of web-cache and content delivery topics. The aim is to hopefully foster more of an understanding of web content delivery technologies. This isn't specifically to push the Squid project - content delivery companies, internet backbones, internet access providers and users alike all benefit from content caching technology.

If you have a gripe with some part of the HTTP/1.1 specfication, or the way a specific site could present cachable content, or have operational experience running content accelerators or ISP end-user caches then please consider writing up an article or two for submission. More information can be obtained by emailing info@squid-cache.org.

Donate money to the Squid project

Donating money can take two forms - you can pay the project to see your feature developed and integrated into the mainline Squid release or you can donate via Paypal to show your general appreciation.

Donating to get stuff done

If you have a particular feature or area of Squid that you'd like fixed up then please consider contacting the Squid project and explaining what you're after. We're a friendly bunch who can pick the right developer for you and work on whatever you'd like. You can find out more information by emailing info@squid-cache.org.

Donate using Paypal

Individuals and companies can donate funds to support Squid development. Funds will go to The Measurement Factory and will pay for bandwidth/hosting charges and, if enough, look at funding a Squid developer or two. You can also ask for the funds to be contributed towards a certain area or developer by saying so in the "Comments" field in the PayPal payment page. You can contribute via PayPal by clicking on the PayPal icon:

Donate equipment and hardware to Squid developers

The squid developer community is a small group of enthusiasts who work on improving and developing Squid. Squid is unfortunately a complicated beast with many features which can be difficult to debug and develop without various specific hardware.

With this in mind, some of the Squid developers have put together a "wishlist" of equipment they'd like to have to continue developing and testing various parts of Squid and web caching in general.

Companies and Individuals who make donations towards the Squid project will be thanked via the Squid mailing lists and via an entry in CONTRIBUTORS. Please note that Squid isn't a registered charity or non-profit organisation and so no donations will be tax-deductable.

For now, email info@squid-cache.org for further information. We'll get in contact with you to discuss the best way to get equipment to the Squid developers.

Adrian Chadd (Perth, Western Australia)

My main focus is on performance, storage and WCCPv2 integration. I'd like to focus work on high-performance opensource reverse proxy/caching (for squid and other software!) which integrates into a Cisco network via WCCPv2. I've acquired a couple of Cisco routers and Cisco Cache Engines which have allowed me to get a grip on the current shortcomings of the Squid implementation.

I'm chasing some form of mask-assignment speaking Cisco switch device - a Catalyst 4000 series switch with a relevant Supervisor would be perfect, or Catalyst 6000/6503 with Sup2 or better. I know they're expensive (which is why I haven't bought one!) so even remote access to some hardware would be appreciated.

Henrik Nordström (Stockholm, Sweden)

Main focus is stability. Release manager for the current Squid-2.x releases.

Guido Serassio (Torino, Italy)

Main focus is portability. Official maintainer of the native Windows port of Squid. I own some Unix boxes used for build and portbility tests of Squid.

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