Michael has written a superb blog post on how to debug Etherpad Lite. If you do need to debug Etherpad, Etherpad lite might be your best option as it has a more simple, easy to understand architecture and now thanks to Michael, better documentation!

We are looking for new talent to get involved with the Etherpad foundation.  We have a pretty exciting few months ahead of us as we plan to launch the next evolution of the Etherpad software.

Why get involved with the Etherpad foundation?  

Collaborative editing gives everyone an equal say, this makes the world a fairer place.  Our goal is to make collaborative editing the defacto standard for web content editing.  We aim to do this through building a community built around a completely open piece of software.

Have a look at our getting involved page for details.