diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2a2d8def142..6990adac963 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -686,6 +686,47 @@
 
   </target>
 
+  	<target name="build-site" depends="svn-up, init-forrest-entities" description="Prototype Helper for Committers.  Assumes SVN is in the path">
+		<delete dir="src/site/build"/>
+		<exec executable="forrest" dir="src/site"/>
+		<copy todir="site">
+			<fileset dir="src/site/build/site"/>
+		</copy>
+		<exec executable="svn" dir="site">
+			<arg value="ci"/>
+			<arg value="-m"/>
+			<arg value="&quot;Forrest Entity updates&quot;"/>
+		</exec>
+
+	</target>
+	<target name="svn-up">
+		<exec executable="svn">
+			<arg value="update"/>
+		</exec>
+	</target>
+  <target name="prepare-release" depends="clean, svn-up, build-site, package" description="Prototype helper for Committers.  Assumes gpg is in the path">
+	<exec executable="gpg">
+	    <arg value="--armor"/>
+	    <arg value="--output"/>
+	    <arg value="${dist}/${fullnamever}.tgz.asc"/>
+		<arg value="--detach-sig"/>
+    	<arg value="${dist}/${fullnamever}.tgz"/>
+	  </exec>
+	<exec executable="gpg">
+	    <arg value="--armor"/>
+	    <arg value="--output"/>
+	    <arg value="${dist}/${fullnamever}.zip.asc"/>
+		<arg value="--detach-sig"/>
+    	<arg value="${dist}/${fullnamever}.zip"/>
+	  </exec>
+    <tar destfile="${dist}/solr-maven.tar">
+		<tarfileset dir="${dist}/maven"/>
+    </tar>
+	<tar destfile="${dist}/solr.tar">
+		<tarfileset dir="${dist}" includes="${fullnamever}.* solr-maven.tar" excludes="${fullnamever}.war"/>
+	</tar>
+  </target>
+
   <target name="generate-maven-artifacts" depends="maven.ant.tasks-check, create-package">
     <sequential>