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Response: an Apache plugin sounds like a very good idea (if you're suggesting what I think you are) - would the Apache plugin handle the details of the Apache distibution layout (all those symlinks and so on down into binary and source directories)? If so, would it be possible to make this all a single operation?
Comment: If deployment is to be automatic, it needs to remove the old deployed version.
Versioned Release Documentation
Given that we keep a large number of old releases around and there are a lot of old commons releases in circulation, we like to upload the documentation as it was at the state of the release to a versioned directory on the site. So, for example, commons/collections/3.0/ might contain the documentation that was shipped with collections-3.0.
Comment: Or put the javadoc in a separate location to the site.
Multiproject Site problems
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