Find information about tools and processes the ASF and its projects use to manage source code, mailing lists, and websites. You can also find how-to guides for committers and Project Management Committees (PMCs).

Apache Infrastructure¶

• High-level notes on Apache Infrastructure

  • More detailed information on services and tools Infra supports for projects
  • Scripts, how-tos, and technical information

• How to become an Infra Volunteer

• Contacting Infra and requesting resources

• Host and service status monitor. Infa has already been alerted if a service shows as down.

• Status of download mirrors

• Machine/Host List of ASF servers

• Site-wide ban policy

Committers and Contributors¶

• How the ASF Works (See also Contact Apache FAQ and ASF FAQ )

• Guide for new project contributors

• Email etiquette tips for contributors

• Guide for new project committers

  • How new committers can publish a personal website

• General Committers FAQ

• Crowd funding Community funding disclaimer

Project Management Committees (PMC)¶

The project PMC must be involved in any requests for Infrastructure assistance. Remember that PMCs can handle many Infrastructure items for themselves.

Learn How To...

• ...read the PMC FAQ

• ...create an ASF Top-Level Project

• ...make a new committer account request

• ...make a karma request

• ...report issues and request project resources

• ...learn duties of the PMC Chairs

• ...learn about Legal issues

• ...manage your project website

• ...choose names for ASF projects and products

Licenses, Trademarks, and Legal issues¶

• About the Apache License

• License FAQ

• Legal Policies, Forms, and Information for Apache Committers

• ASF Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy

• "How-To" guide for assembling LICENSE and NOTICE

• Rationale of how to apply the Apache License, Version 2.0 (descriptive, not policy)

• Apache Trademark Policy - for outside parties

• Apache Project Branding Requirements - for projects

Version Control¶

• Subversion and Git source code repositories

• Using proper SVN eol-style

• Git Access to Apache Code repositories

Apache Project Websites¶

• Overview of the ASF CMS for project websites. Note: no new projects can use the CMS, and Infra is helping existing projects migrate off the CMS to other options.

  • Reference Manual for working with ASF CMS

• How to manage your project website

• How to update the main apache.org website

Software Product Releases¶

• Release Policy

• Release Distribution Policy

• Release creation process

• Release download pages

• Apache Maven Jar repositories

• Signing releases

• How to Use OpenPGP for key management

• How to transition to a longer key

• Releases from Incubating projects

Issue and Bug Tracking¶

Each project uses their own issue tracker to track bugs, requests, and other action items - typically JIRA or BugZilla. Every Apache project decides how to track issues, so see each project website to find how they track issues.

Mailing Lists¶

• Please read the Public Forum Archive Policy before posting on any Apache mailing list!

• Subscription instructions and netiquette for all Apache mailing lists.

• All Apache projects have their own set of project-specific mailing lists

• There are some other non-project mailing lists (e.g. legal-discuss@ and community@ and various announcement lists).

• Privacy notes about non-public lists and about balancing confidentiality and public discussion.

• Guide for new project contributors

• Email etiquette tips for contributors

• How to moderate Apache mailing lists

• All Apache mailing lists are archived:

  • Read most Apache list archives on mail-archives.apache.org by going to the specific project list, then append the mbox filename to the URL (e.g. mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201210.mbox)
  • Raw mbox archive files are available for every mailing list.
  • Each project website has a "mail" directory, e.g. httpd.apache.org/mail/ (see notes).
  • For top-level/non-project mailing lists see www.apache.org/mail/ directory.

Pasting data to others¶

Apache provides a paste bin service for committers to use at https://paste.apache.org.

Anyone can view the pastes (except those marked 'committers only'), but only committers are allowed to paste new data on the site.

Apache URL Shortener Service¶

Infrastructure hosts the s.apache.org URL shortening service for our committers. When including URLs in PMC reports, please use this service and not other URL shorteners.

@infrabot: [status] Resolved: Mail - Queue Red Alert has resumed normal operation. To view history or postmortem please visit… https://t.co/gZv0Bp5iqy @ 29 Oct, 01:18

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@infrabot: [status] Investigating: Mail - Queue Red Alert is experiencing issues. https://t.co/hHBgoFiHMZ @ 28 Oct, 21:45

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@infrabot: [status] Resolved: Mail - Queue Red Alert has resumed normal operation. To view history or postmortem please visit… https://t.co/aZxM1wae2s @ 27 Oct, 03:58

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@infrabot: [status] Investigating: Mail - Queue Red Alert is experiencing issues. https://t.co/UiElDNWlhh @ 27 Oct, 03:20

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[INFRA-21048] Disable the auto-labeler bot, probot-autolabeler, which was used by both the apache/spark github project for the apache/iceberg github project
We used to use the probot autolabeler to label our PRs in both the Iceberg Github Repo, as well as...

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[INFRA-21054] OpenOffice Jenkins Folder on ci-builds.apache.org
Please create the OpenOffice Jenkins Folder on ci-builds.apache.org

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[INFRA-20772] Enable Github Discussions
Can we enable GitHub discussions (https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/about-team-discussions) for Airflow please? It would be a better place for users to...

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[INFRA-21053] Request for jenkins job for the TomEE project
Currently, there is no Jenkins job in https://ci-builds.apache.org/ for the TomEE project https://github.com/apache/tomee.

Can you please create this job...

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