Apache Developers' & Contributors' Overview¶

These pages provide a directory of technical details pertinent to all Apache projects, for developers, committers, release managers and PMC members contributing to any Apache project.

If you can't find information here, ask on your project's mailing list, or contact the Community Development project's mailing list for more general questions. There are many experienced ASF people who can help.

• Infrastructure
• Committers and Contributors
• Project Management Committees (PMC)
• Licenses and Legal Issues
• Version Control
• Websites
• Releases
• Issue Tracking
• Mailing Lists
• Board of Directors and ASF Governance Overview
• Pasting Data to share with others
• URL Shortener for Committers

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 and host list of Apache 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

• ...choose names for ASF projects and products

• ...make a new committer account request

• ...make a karma request

• ...report issues and request project resources

• ...manage your project website

Learn...

• ...the duties of the PMC Chairs

• ...about about Legal issues

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¶

How to

• manage your project website

• update the 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 share with 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.