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         All ASF projects need to be able to concentrate on their projects and
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	<div class="label">Warning</div>
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	This is a draft proposal document. It is not yet the consensus of ASF nor
	the Infrastructure committee.
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	<h2 class="underlined_10">Overview</h2>
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	<p>
	All ASF projects need to be able to concentrate on their projects and
	the content of their websites, rather than get tangled up in arcane
	website publication procedures.
	</p>
	<p>
	A proposal is currently being discussed for
	<a href="http://people.apache.org/~crossley/proposal-asf-publish.html">ASF-wide
	documentation staging and publishing</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	The context of this Forrestbot proposal is at Item C through to Item G
	of that infrastructure, the "staging server". This does not preclude
	other mechanisms - some projects might choose to use Forrestbot.
	</p>
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	<h2 class="underlined_10">About Forrestbot</h2>
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	<p>
	The Forrestbot enables the automated building and deployment of
	websites. It will retrieve the source from SVN or CVS, build the
	website, and then deploy it. Notifications can be sent. It keeps a log
	of the build process. See more <a href="tools/forrestbot.html">detailed
	explanation</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	There is also a "web interface" component to Forrestbot to enable the
	project committers to easily trigger their website build, view the
	result, and deploy it to the staging server. See more
	<a href="tools/forrestbot-web-interface.html">detailed explanation</a>.
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	The staging server (e.g. stage.apache.org) would be a virtual server. A
	stable version of "forrest" and "forrestbot" would be installed there.
	Each project that uses forrestbot would have a forrestbot configuration
	file. This defines the SVN or CVS repository to get the source from,
	where to deploy the built site, and various other parameters.
	</p>
	<p>
	The Forrestbot web interface requires a servlet container (e.g.
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/">Apache Tomcat</a>) and an
	<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache HTTP Server</a> would be used
	to view the staging sites.
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	The recent demonstration on brutus is now gone. Soon we will set up a
	new demo on our zone machine.
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