Port the site documentation from APT to Markdown - #487
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slachiewicz merged 2 commits intoAug 6, 2026
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A pure rename, so that git records it and `git log --follow` and `git blame` still reach the history of each page after the conversion that follows. The content is still APT at this point and the site does not build between the two commits.
Converted with doxia-converter and then cleaned up by hand:
- <<<code>>> becomes backticks, <<bold>> becomes **bold**, {{{url}text}}
becomes [text](url)
- the ASF license header becomes a single block HTML comment
- the page needs no Velocity, so it is a plain .md and the title, which was
${project.name}, is now spelled out
Verified by building the site before and after: the rendered page is
unchanged apart from <b>/<i> becoming <strong>/<em> and quotes in prose
picking up the Markdown module's typographic substitution.
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Converts the site documentation under
src/site/aptto Markdown. APT is a format onlyDoxia understands; Markdown is already supported by
maven-site-pluginout of the box,so no POM change is needed.
Converted with
doxia-converterand then cleaned up by hand:<<<code>>>becomesbackticks,
<<bold>>becomes**bold**,{{{url}text}}becomes[text](url), and theASF licence header becomes a single block HTML comment. The page needed no Velocity, so
it is a plain
.mdwith its title spelled out.The change is split into two commits: a pure rename, so that
git log --followandgit blamestill reach the page's history, and then the conversion itself. Please mergeor rebase rather than squash, or the rename is collapsed and that history is lost again.
Verified by building the site before and after the change and comparing the generated
page: the visible text and the link targets are unchanged.
Part of the wider migration tracked in
apache/maven-doxia-converter#139