Prospective Machines List

The Apache Software Foundation (a US registered non-profit organization) is currently soliciting donations for hardware to be used by the core infrastructure team to provide services to the general Apache Software Foundation community of developers and users.

If you feel that you can help facilitate these donations to the ASF, please contact fundraising at apache.org. Donations of hardware will be gratefully acknowledged on our Thanks page. Read more about helping to support the ASF.

Unless otherwise specified, all machines are to be hosted by the ASF in our co-lo facility.

Current requests:

None

Fulfilled requests (thanks to the vendors who supplied machines!):

Mail Server

Description: Replace the current mail server (daedalus.apache.org), which handles all apache.org mail and operates all apache.org mailing lists.

Minimum requirements:

  • Rackmount chassis up to 4U (preferably 2U)
  • Managed via serial port
  • At least 2x CPU
  • At least 512MB memory
  • At least 50GB of RAID storage (any RAID-level sufficient)

Proposed access: Restricted to infrastructure participants only.

Issue Tracking and Mail Archive Server

Description: Provide a replacement for our issue tracking server (nagoya.apache.org), which runs Bugzilla, Eyebrowse, and Jira.

Notes: Must be able to run Java programs reliably - this may restrict the OS to either Linux, MacOS X, or Solaris.

Minimum requirements:

  • Rackmount chassis up to 2U
  • Managed via serial port
  • At least 2x CPU
  • At least 1GB memory
  • At least 50GB of RAID storage (any RAID-level sufficient)

Proposed access: Restricted to infrastructure participants only.

Build/User Server

Description: Provide a general-access server for various automated build services (i.e. CocoonBot, ForrestBot, etc.) and allow ASF projects to build and test in an ad-hoc fashion.

Notes: Must be able to run Java programs reliably - this may restrict the OS to either Linux, Mac OS X, or Solaris.

Minimum requirements:

  • Rackmount chassis up to 2U
  • Managed via serial port
  • At least 2x CPU
  • At least 1GB memory

Proposed access: All ASF committers.

Dedicated Build Server

Description: Provide a dedicated build server for Gump, which generates automated builds for ASF projects.

Notes: Must be able to run Java programs reliably - this may restrict the OS to either Linux, Mac OS X, or Solaris.

Minimum requirements:

  • 1U Rackmount chassis
  • Managed via serial port
  • At least 512MB memory

Proposed access: Restricted to infrastructure and gump participants only.

Certificate Server

Description: Provide a secure installation for an ASF certificate storage system.

Minimum requirements:

  • 1U Rackmount chassis

Proposed access: Restricted to subset of infrastructure participants.