A Manual for new Commons committers

Idea being that we bring the various how-to's and guides into one centralised document/book/site/thing. It should be both easily viewable online, and printable so you can sit on the toilet and read about our goings on.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Commons - What it's all about.
• Communication. How to use the mailing lists. Voting.
• Subversion information. How to check code out.
• Maven information. How to build.
• Site information. How to generate the site. How to upload your changes.
• Releasing. How to release.
• PMC. What it's there for.
• Legal. How to not screw-up.
• How the sandbox works / how components get promoted / how components get made dormant/active/dead.
• Programming guidelines.
  

The following links contain material to fill the above with:

• CommonsEtiquette
• GettingInvolved
• UsingSVN
• ProposalSandboxPruning
• MovingFromSandboxToProper
• MovingFromSandboxToProperSVN
• CreatingStandardWebPresence
• GettingInvolved
• ReleaseChecking
• SigningReleases
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/charter.html
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/volunteering.html
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/patches.html
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/building.html
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/index.html