CONTRIBUTING.adoc

= Contributing

This repository is part of https://james.apache.org/[Apache James] project.

The sources are available here https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf#james and mirrored to Github.

This repository contains 4 branches with specific roles: 

- `asf-site` contains the files which are effectively deployed to `https://james.apache.org`
- `asf-staging` contains the files which are deployed to `https://james.staged.apache.org`
- `live` is automatically built by a job one the [CI server](https://builds.apache.org/job/james/job/ApacheJames-Website/job/live/)
- `staging` is automatically built by a job one the [CI server](https://builds.apache.org/job/james/job/ApacheJames-Website/job/staging/)

Content pushed to `asf-site` and `asf-staging` is automatically published by
an ASF process akin to github or gitlab pages. This process can be configured
using the [.asf.yaml](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/git+-+.asf.yaml+features)
file.

The output of the `staging` branch build is pushed to the `asf-staging` branch,
by the CI job and thus is automatically deployed to https://james.staged.apache.org/.

The output of the `live` branch build is ultimately meant to be pushed to the 
`asf-site` branch by the corresponding CI job and thus will automatically be
deployed to https://james.apache.org/.

However at the time of this writing, the documentation website is being reorganized and 
migrated to antora. Thus the link between `live` and `asf-site` is not enabled yet but it 
is the target.

PRs to this repository should generally target the `staging` branch.

= LICENSING  

The website must not be published as Apache Release.
The reason is the antora ui-bundle uses MPL 2.0 license and we can't mix it with ASF 2.0
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-530 .