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Apache Traffic Server Developer Wiki

Welcome to the Apache Traffic Server developer wiki. This is the central hub for contributor documentation, coding standards, and development processes.

Community

• Summits — Every ATS summit and hackathon since 2009, with slides and recordings
• ATS Summit Planning — The next summit: draft agenda, dates being polled on dev@

Developer Guide

• Getting Started — Build from source, set up your development environment
• Coding Style — Formatting rules, naming conventions, and best practices
• Contributing — How to submit PRs, file issues, and work with the community
• Code Review — Review expectations, approval process, and merge policy
• Testing — Unit tests, AuTests, and test coverage

Infrastructure

• Continuous Integration — CI checks, reading failures, and local reproduction
• Coverity — Static analysis triage process

Technical References

• Architecture Overview — Event-driven model, threading, HTTP state machine
• Design Documents — Proposals in flight, accepted designs, and how to propose one
• HTTP 3 Documentation — Building and benchmarking HTTP/3 support
• Release Process — Branches, versioning, and release management

Where Things Live

• This wiki is for how the project works: contributing, review, CI, releases, summits, and design proposals. Committers edit it directly, and it always describes the current process.
• The official documentation is for the software itself: building, configuration, plugins, and APIs. It lives in doc/ next to the code, changes through pull requests, and has a version for each release.
• The old Confluence wiki is retired and read-only. Each page there links to its replacement.

External Resources

• Official Documentation
• GitHub Repository
• Issue Tracker
• Downloads
• Mailing Lists — Subscribe: dev, users
• Slack — #traffic-server (how to join)

Apache Project Resources

• PMC Responsibilities
• Voting Process
• Release Management
• License Information
• ASF Development Infrastructure