These pages attempt to list all resources and information related to the ASF development infrastructure. It contains information aimed at developers, committers, release managers, pmc members and infrastructure volunteers.
Please contribute to their improvement. If you cannot find your answers here, then please ask on your project mailing lists. There are many experienced ASF people there to help.
The content is categorized below. Alternatively, this sitemap summarizing all information available.
Committers and Contributors
- How the ASF Works (See also ASF preFAQ and ASF FAQ)
- Introduction for contributors
- Tips for email contributors
- Guide for new committers
- Committers FAQ
- SSH Access
- Configure e-mail forwarding
- Publish private website
- How to be an infrastructure volunteer
- How to report issues and request project resources - see the introduction, keep your PMC informed.
Project Management Committees (PMC)
All requests for Infrastructure assistance need to be sure that the relevant project PMC is involved. In fact the PMCs can handle many Infrastructure items for themselves.
- PMC FAQ
- Make a new committer account request
- Make a karma request
- How to report issues and request project resources
- Duties of the PMC Chairs
- Legal stuff
- Zones for ASF projects (establish and manage Solaris zones)
- Manage your project website
- Notes on the Applied Social Ecology of Mailing Lists
- Choosing names for ASF projects and products
Licenses and other legal stuff
Websites
- A list of all project websites is found on the right hand side of this page, and another view is available at projects.apache.org
- Manage your project website
- Updating the Infrastructure website (top-level and /dev/ and /foundation/)
- The projects.apache.org site is managed by the infrastructure site-dev mailing list. Content is managed by each project via a project descriptor file.
- The people.apache.org site is managed by the infrastructure site-dev mailing list. Content is managed by each committer via a descriptor file.
Releases
Software distribution and mirroring
Bad mirrors are automatically removed from the rotation of "preferred" mirrors. If a mirror stays bad for more than a couple of weeks, it is usually removed permanently. So, there is no need to post helpful mail to infrastructure when a mirror is down.
- Obtain software distributions via the mirrors
- Become an ASF mirror
- Mirror Status
Machines and Services
- Machines List
- Services List
- Public Host and Service Status - ASF Infra has already been automatically alerted if a service is down. This page is for your comfort. Refer to the machines list.
Issue tracking
Each project uses their own issue tracker. There is no standard, so visit each project website to find which one they use.
Infrastructure uses JIRA for task management and issue tracking. To request changes to an issues tracking system (for example, to request that a project be added), see How to report issues and request project resources
Information on supported issue tracking systems:
Mailing Lists
- See notes about expectations, subscription instructions, nettiquette, etc. for all mailing lists. See Public Forum Archive Policy.
- Each project has their own project mailing lists.
- There are some other non-project lists (e.g. legal-discuss@ and community@ and various announcement lists).
- There are various Infrastructure mailing lists (e.g. infrastructure@ for reporting issues and site-dev@ for management of various top-level websites).
- Privacy notes about non-public lists and about balancing confidentiality and public discussion.
- Tips for email contributors
- Request a new mailing list
- Request a mailing list configuration change
- Mailing list moderation
- Notes on applied social ecology (aimed at PMCs)
SVN
- SVN via the webserver
- SVN via ViewVC
- Version Control with Subversion - the book
- FAQs about Subversion at ASF
- Anonymous SVN
- Committer SVN access
- Make an SVN admin request
Infrastructure details
- How to be an infrastructure volunteer
- Machines and Services
- How to report issues and request project resources
- Infrastructure mailing lists
- Solaris zone hosting
- Procedures for creating an ASF Top-Level Project
- Procedures for creating an ASF Project (where the PMC already exists)
- Updating the Infrastructure website (top-level and /dev/ and /foundation/)
Miscellaneous
- General wiki - however an effort is being made to bring all of that old information together on this www.apache.org website.
- Wiki FAQ
- Nightly builds and testing