<archive>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/</archive>
    </mailingList>
  </mailingLists>
  <developers>
    <developer>
      <id>jvanzyl</id>
      <name>Jason van Zyl</name>
      <email>jason@maven.org</email>
      <organization>ASF</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>PMC Chair</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>-5</timezone>
    </developer>
    <developer>

2. Accept the changes.\
If you are sure that the changes are intentional, follow the steps described in the report.
This includes adding the description of the changes to the `accepted-public-api-changes.json` file, and providing a reason for each change.
You can add the changes to any place in the file, e.g. at the top.

3. Make sure the file with accepted changes is sorted.\
Use the `./gradlew :architecture-test:sortAcceptedApiChanges` task to sort the file.

## Running on Startup

In most cases, when you create a web API, you want it to be **always running**, uninterrupted, so that your clients can always access it. This is of course, unless you have a specific reason why you want it to run only in certain situations, but most of the time you want it constantly running and **available**.

### In a Remote Server

Most of these settings are variable (can change), like database URLs. And many could be sensitive, like secrets.

For this reason it's common to provide them in environment variables that are read by the application.

## Environment Variables

!!! tip