diff --git a/maven-site/src/site/apt/developers/development-guide.apt b/maven-site/src/site/apt/developers/development-guide.apt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c08e15c14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-site/src/site/apt/developers/development-guide.apt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+ ------
+Development Guide
+ ------
+Emmanuel Venisse
+ ------
+8 July 2005
+ ------
+
+~~ Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+~~ 
+~~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+~~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+~~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+~~ 
+~~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+~~ 
+~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+~~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+~~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+~~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+~~ limitations under the License.
+
+Subversion configuration
+
+    Before committing files in subversion repository, you need to read the
+    {{{http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html#https-svn}Committer Subversion Access}}
+    document and you must set your svn client
+    with these properties file : {{http://www.apache.org/dev/svn-eol-style.txt}}
diff --git a/maven-site/src/site/site.xml b/maven-site/src/site/site.xml
index a0797f2ac9..e4b3109eef 100644
--- a/maven-site/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/maven-site/src/site/site.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
     </menu>
     ${reports}
     <menu name="Developers">
+      <item name="Developers Guide" href="/developers/development-guide.html"/>
       <item name="Documentation Needed" href="/docs-required.html"/>
       <item name="Building Maven 2.0" href="/building.html"/>
     </menu>