Infra News

April 2, 2025: If you cannot access one or more ASF repositories or services, your IP address may have been blocked. Before contacting Infra, review Abuse and Connectivity Issues at the ASF (ABC). The page lists the common overuse (or abuse) issues that affect our site's work and cause an automatic IP address block, and recommends steps to get such a block removed.

January 13, 2025: A new policy governing third-party content on project websites came into effect March 1. The goal is to bring websites into compliance with The ASF's privacy policies. Read about the new policy here.

Looking for Help?

If you have questions about or require support with email, code repositories, virtual machines, web sites, issue trackers or other infrastructure stuff, we are here to help!

Services and Tools

Infra supports services for the ASF and its projects, including GitBox, Jira, Confluence Wiki, Jenkins, and Buildbot. Our toolbox that contains both home-brewed solutions and "off the shelf" offerings.

Self-serve

Use our self-serve features to perform tasks ranging from requesting a Jira account to creating a mailing list, without having to involve the Infra team.

Roundtables

Infra holds Roundtable meetings most months to discuss infrastructure development and challenges. Participants are welcome to bring their own concerns, questions, and suggestions.

There will be no Roundtable in May. The next Roundtable will be Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 1700 UTC, with a presentation on JFrog and Artifactory, a universal binary repository manager that enables teams to store, manage, and organize software packages throughout the development lifecycle; and also time for any issues you want to bring up.

Ideas

Here is the suggestion box for future ASF infrastructure services, as well as for enhancements to existing services.

Add your suggestion, or upvote and comment on suggestions others have made.

Inside Infra

Infra publishes a monthly newsletter, "Inside Infra", on our blog and also emails it to Members and committers who have subscribed to the users@infra.apache.org email list. This is a handy way to catch up on Infrastructure developments, policy changes, and new resources.