Apache Project Web Sites typically include several standard pages. Each page is formatted with a navigation bar on the left and a project standard header that includes the Incubator graphic.

The Web Site can be established during incubation, and migrated after incubation to a permanent place in the TLP home.

• Project Home Page: the primary entry point to the site; contains project description, news, invitation to join the project.
• License Page: usually, the Apache License 2.0
• Downloads: many projects in incubation will release code, and this page describes them and has links to the download pages that redirect to Apache Mirror sites.
• Documentation: this page describes the project documentation, including javadoc for Java projects; guides, tutorials, and links to external documentation.
• Committers: a list of current committers on the project.
• Mailing Lists: there are several mailing lists that the community might be interested in, and this page contains mailto: links that allow easy subscription (and unsubscription) to any of them.
• FAQ: frequently asked questions are answered here.
• Road Map: if the project has a vision of future community or development activities, the road map is published here.
• Source Code: links to the browsable source repository and svn commands to check out the sources.
• Coding Standards: the coding standards for submitted code by the community, along with a description of how strict the project intends to be.
• Issue Tracking: links to the JIRA or other issue tracking tool, possibly including frequently used filters for issue lists.
• Dependencies: other projects that this project depends on.

The choice of tool used to generate the web site is left to the podling. If you already have a tool that you are comfortable with, you can continue to use it. If you do not, consider using Apache Velocity Anakia, a tool that processes xml to produce html.

Regardless of which tool you use, the web site should be maintained in the svn repository, and include the site generation tool as a binary file. This simplifies the process of site generation and enables changes to the site to be made by any committer. The generated site should also be checked into svn. This allows the generated site to be relocated to any part of the Apache site after incubation is complete.

Since the site is independent of the code, it should exist high in the svn repository, e.g. parallel to the trunk of the source tree.

The website is published by checking out the content from SVN into the directory /www/incubator.apache.org/podlingname on people.apache.org. The particular SVN module used to store the website is a matter for the podling but it should be in SVN.

People using Maven, Forrest, or any other tool still have to address the SVN publishing requirement that the infrastructure team has laid out. If that is done, then we just run "svn update" in that directory to load the site from SVN.

The Mentors MUST add the information to the podling incubation status file, to describe the SVN module and the directory which holds the published site.

Podlings may use a wiki to create documentation (including the website) providing that follow the guidelines. In particular, care must be taken to ensure that access to the wiki used to create documentation is restricted to only those with filed CLAs. The PPMC MUST review all changes and ensure that trust is not abused.