Policies and Procedures

This page exists to start collecting references to all policy and procedure type pages throughout the ASF Infrastructure. Remember that each project probably does things slightly differently - look around, get ideas, develop your own project procedures.

Major repositories

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• Apache Incubator incubation policy
• Apache Development Information
• Apache Jakarta Guidelines
• Apache Jakarta Guides
• Apache Jakarta Newbie Pages
• Apache James How-To Contribute
• Apache Incubator
• Apache XML Guidelines
  

Voting

• Apache Voting Process

• Wiki Markup
  \[BoardElectionVoteCounting|How votes are counted in board elections]] \\

New Committers

• Committers' FAQs
• Apache Incubator: New Committers
  

Contributing

• Introduction for contributors
• FAQs
• The Apache Way
• Apache Cocoon: Contribution Notes and Tips
  

SVN

• Subversion at ASF
• Apache Forrest: CVS through SSH
• Apache Cocoon: CVS Usage Precis
• Apache Jakarta: CVS Access on UNIX
• Apache Jakarta: CVS Access on Windows
  

Release Process

• SigningReleases Signing Releases
• Mirroring
• AvalonReleaseManagerHowto SigningReleases Avalon Release Signing
• Avalon Release Management
  

Misc.

• Avalon PMC Voting Procedures
• Community Based Decision Making
• Jakarta Commons Etiquette
• Licensing

Please add new sections, links that you find, reorganize if you feel compelled, etc. This is a Community document.