Discussions about the design and implementation of the main apache.org website are held on the site-dev@ apache.org mailing list.

Analysis

General

• The top level ASF-wide apache.org website is managed as described at http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-site.html

• Note that this does not include project-specific websites (which each manage their own content), nor does it include any of the wikis used at the ASF.
• The infrastructure team and any ASF member has write access to the source code for the apache.org website. Read access is public.

Homepage

• The body (Latest News, etc.) is located at xdocs/index.xml
• The right hand side navigation is located at xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml
• The body and the right hand side navigation seem to be aggregated by the ant build file (build.xml)

Blog

• Jun-2010: the most recent X number of entries are pulled in as links to the apache.org/index.xml page by the Ant build script.
• TODO

Misc

TODO

Requirements

Functional

Homepage

• The project list on the right hand side should be dynamically included (from http://projects.apache.org/) [SebastianBazley: why projects? Is that the canonical list of TLPs? Surely there is a better source?][ShaneCurcuru: The list should be pulled in from whatever the best canonical source is. Long-term, that source should be projects.a.o once it's complete]

• News entries should be shared with the ASF Feather Blog (http://blogs.apache.org/foundation/)

• TODO

Blog

• TODO

Search

• One should be able to select different search results providers (e.g. Google, bing, "Lucene/Nutch")
• TODO

Maintenance

• Also see https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/docs/misc/web-app-requirements.txt

Security

• TODO

Performance/Scalability

• TODO

Redundancy/Uptime/System-Stability

• TODO

Backwards/Forwards Compatibility/Upgradeability

• What is your backwards compatibility policy?
• What is your forwards compatibility policy?

Misc

• Static export of the content
• Can also be edited/published using SVN

Development/Customization/Enhancements

General

• What is your license? (What happens if the license is changed?)
• What about support?

Proprietary Source

• What about putting the code into escrow?
• What if company who owns the code is dissolved or sold to another company?
• How can a third-party developer enhance/customize proprietary components?

Open Source

• What if project/organization is dissolved?

Design

• TODO

Evaluation

Products

• Confluence (according to Luciano is already powering http://community.apache.org/)