README.md

Apache Foundation Website (www.apache.org)

We are now in production

• Production Website

This repository provides the source for the main website of The Apache Software Foundation.

• Content

  • md pages in GitHub Flavored Markdown which can include HTML.
  • ezmd pages in a combination of ezt and GitHub Flavored Markdown.
  • html files are treated as static files.
  • static assets of all types.
  • .htaccess files for redirection and rewrite rules.

• Issues

• Branches. Note that .asf.yaml is setup for autopreview, so that a branch named preview/mytest for example is automatically staged at https://www-mytest.staged.apache.org/

• Pull Requests

  • Creating a pull request

Documentation

Read the Getting started guide and the pages it links to.

Notes

The website is built with Pelican.

The infrastructure-pelican Dockerfile can be used to build the website locally, for testing.

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is via the .asf.yaml file mechanism which runs Buildbot.

• Pelican Configuration -- pelican configuration
• ASF Data Load -- ASF metadata to be used by ezt and pelican. See asfdata.py.
• ASF YAML Pelican Build -- ASF infrastructure instructions

The svn history was not migrated and remains available.

Foundation records, including minutes of Board meetings, remain in svn, except for the index page.