Here you can find information about tools and processes used by Apache projects and the ASF to manage our source code, our mailing lists, our websites, and also How-To guides for committers and Project Management Committees (PMCs).

Apache Infrastructure

• Notes on Apache Infrastructure

• How to become an Infra Volunteer

• List of Services available to Apache projects

• Contacting infra and requesting resources

• Public Host and Service Status monitoring - ASF Infra has already been automatically alerted if a service shows as down.

• Machine/Host List of ASF servers

• Mailing List and Subversion Statistics

• Infrastructure Confluence Wiki

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

Project Management Committees (PMC)

All requests for Infrastructure assistance need to be sure that the relevant project PMC is involved. 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 Licence

• Licence 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

• Source Code Repositories - SVN and GIT

• Using proper SVN eol-style

• Git Access to Apache Codebases

Apache Project Websites

• Overview of the ASF CMS for project websites

• Reference Manual for working with ASF CMS

• How to manage your project website

• How to update the main apache.org website

Software Product Releases

• Releases FAQ

• Release publishing

• Dynamic release download pages

• JAR Repositories FAQ

• Release signing

• How To Use GnuPG For Key Management At Apache

  • How To Avoid SHA-1 in GnuPG

  • How To Generate A Strong Key

  • 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.

Read about how paste.a.o works on the site or read this overview blog post.