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#Overview

The documentation is split into different parts:

   * [Getting Started](/documentation/getting-started.html), the right place to start!
   * [The Sling Engine](/documentation/the-sling-engine.html), all about the heart of Sling
   * [Development](/documentation/development.html), how do I get and develop with Sling
   * [Bundles](/documentation/bundles.html), which bundle delivers which features to Sling
   * [Tutorials & How-Tos](/documentation/tutorials-how-tos.html)
   * [Wiki](http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/)
   * [Configuration](/documentation/configuration.html)
   * [API Documentation](/documentation/apidocs.html), the javadoc of the API exposed by Sling

# More than 300 modules. No kidding.

As our [list of Git repositories](/repolist.html) indicates, Sling consists of more than
300 modules.

Their importance and maturity varies, and we do our best to keep this information up to date,
[marking modules as deprecated](/documentation/development/deprecating-sling-modules.html) once
they stop being useful.

Some of these modules have their documentation in their Git repositories, linked from
the [repositories list page](/repolist.html), while others have at least part of
their documentation [on this website](documentation/bundles.html).

# How you can contribute

We're on the way to improve the documentation, but it's a long way. If you would like to contribute to the documentation you are very welcome. Please directly post your proposals to the [public wiki](http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/) or post your suggestions to the [mailing list](/project-information.html).


# How the documentation is generated

The basic documentation of Sling is made up of four parts:

1. The Sling Site at http://sling.apache.org/ (you are here)
1. The Public Wiki at http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING
1. The JavaDoc
1. The Maven plugin documentation

This page is about how this documentation is maintained and who is allowed to do what.


## The Sling Website

The website is built from a dedicated repository as described [Project Information](/project-information.html#documentation-repository).


## The Public Wiki

The public wiki of Sling is available at [http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING](http://cwiki.apache.org/SLING) and is maintained in the Confluence space *SLING*. Everyone can create an account there. To gain edit rights please ask via the [mailing list](/project-information.html). Any of the administrators listed in the [Space Overview](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/viewspacesummary.action?key=SLING&showAllAdmins=true) can give you access.


## The JavaDoc

With every major release of Sling the JavaDoc of all containing bundles are published below [http://sling.apache.org/apidocs/](http://sling.apache.org/apidocs/).
The script for generating this aggregation JavaDoc is in the sling-tooling-release repo, at [generate_javadoc_for_release.sh](https://github.com/apache/sling-tooling-release/blob/master/generate_javadoc_for_release.sh).

In addition every released bundle is released together with its JavaDoc (which is also pushed to Maven Central).

## The Maven Plugin Documentation

For the most important Maven Plugins the according Maven Sites (generated with the `maven-site-plugin`) are published at [http://sling.apache.org/components/](http://sling.apache.org/components/). The description on how to publish can be found at [Release Management](/documentation/development/release-management.html).