Dev.Apache.Org
Developer Resources

This site is obsolete. New pages are now available for Apache Software Foundation developers and for Apache HTTP Server developers in particular.

This site includes many of the reference materials used by the Apache Project. Note that a lot of these documents may not be entirely up-to-date. Some may have been superseded by other references, and some may just be waiting for someone to get around to updating them.

User Feedback

• User access (submit and query) to the Apache Bug Report Database.
• Developer access (submit, query and edit) to the database of Apache bug reports. Requires authorisation.
  Guidelines for editing PRs.
• Information about the various Apache mailing lists.
• Archives of the Apache mailing lists.
• Hypermail archive of new-httpd.
• How to contribute code patches to Apache.

General Developer Guidelines

• The Platform-Developer's list
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• The latest draft of the Apache project plan
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• Apache Project Guidelines
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• The Apache coding style guide
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• Some notes on the API
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• A prototype reference dictionary for the Apache HTTP Server API
  (note: this link may not take you anywhere useful; the documents may be missing or in a state of flux. Caveat spectator.)
• Some notes on debugging
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Source Repository Guidelines

• Apache Development Notes about using CVS and maintaining the Apache site.
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• Instructions on developer access to the repository via Anonymous CVS.
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• Instructions on developer access to the repository via CVSup.
• CVS and SSH for NT users, useful for NT developers.
• The to-do list of the Apache developers.
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• Record of changes to the module magic number
  

Source Repository Access

• A Web-based view of the CVS history of the development effort
• The latest source tree pulled from the CVS repository, packaged with tar, and compressed with gzip. Not guaranteed to do anything, especially not compile or work.
• Doug MacEachern wrote a Perl script which you can use to automate fetching from the above from-cvs location.

Release Guidelines

• Instructions for rolling the release tarballs
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• How to build binary distributions
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• A shell script to build a binary release.

Historical Documents

• Old voting guidelines