Projects @ Apache DocumentationThe data used to generate the website projects.apache.org is maintained by the projects themselves. The code that generates the site is simply using aggregating the data supplied and presenting it in a cohesive manner. The individual projects should never need to be concerned about how the site is generated - they just need to maintain their data! Guidelines for maintaining their data files can be found here. This section of the website provides more information about how the site is generated and the various dependancies within the data we rely on. ASF Extensions to DOAPWhen looking at using DOAP as our file format we decided that while it met most of our requirments, there were two areas that it didn't have support for. As it's an extensible format we define our own extension to DOAP using the 'asfext' namespace. Document making use of one or both of these extensions should use the following namespace declaration xmlns:asfext="http://projects.apache.org/ns/asfext#" The two additions that most projects will need to use are
Documentaion for both is provided in this section and guidelines for how they should be used can be found in the DOAP Files section of this website. Projects Internal NameIn order to standardise the naming for creating links within the projects website the following format is used for the internal name used as the 'id' attribute for files, PMC files included.
e.g. The internal name for 'Apache Forrest' is 'forrest'. |