Here you can find all kinds of wonderful information about Infra projects and infrastructure updates
Posted on: 2022-12-01 00:00:00+00:00
In discussions at ApacheCon in New Orleans, we learned that the three standard methods of communicating with Infra:
Posted on: 2022-11-21 00:00:00+00:00
This afternoon, we rolled out two new Shared Jenkins Nodes, jenkins-win-azr-7 and 8. They are both in rotation, using the labels Windows and Windows-Docker. The second label was put in place as the older nodes can't run Docker Desktop. I've also tried setting these up by cloning disks instead of …
Posted on: 2022-11-11 16:48:00+00:00
Today, the Infrastructure Team took the step to disable public signups to ASF Jira
This was not done lightly. The main reason for this is the amount of spam and spam accounts that are created every day, it has made managing Jira a big effort. In addition, Infra are planning …
Posted on: 2022-10-24 12:54:00+00:00
Just moved posts over from blogs.apache.org/infra. New posts all go through the infrastructure-website repo and it should be as easy as posting some markdown.
Posted on: 2022-07-13 16:41:38+00:00
July 13, 2022
At around 09:11 UTC on Tuesday, July 12th 2022, the primary mailing list server (colloquially known as Hermes) at The Apache Software Foundation suffered a fatal breakdown and became unresponsive.
The Infrastructure team (Infra) was immediately notified and, in cooperation with our data center provider, attempted …
Posted on: 2022-06-27 12:51:54+00:00
Since before the start of COVID-19, the Infrastructure team had one open staff position. We have been able to fill it this year with a strong addition to the team, Chris Wells.
Where do you live?
Birch Run, Michigan, USA. I was born in Flint, Michigan, but I have moved …
Posted on: 2022-04-04 07:48:50+00:00
As we head into April and the middle of the spring of 2022, we are pleased to announce that we have migrated our writable git repository service, gitbox.apache.org, to a new location, a new cluster of hardware bits, and a new platform. The migration took around 35 minutes …
Posted on: 2020-10-21 13:35:19+00:00
Available as of yesterday, more self serve features were added to the .asf.yaml toolset, based around Github Branch Protection.
You can now add the following features :-
Posted on: 2020-07-15 13:29:54+00:00
The Infrastructure team is constantly looking for ways to do its work more quickly while maintaining the ASF standards of reliability, security, and almost-continuous availability. The more the team can speed up and improve standard processes that almost every project goes through, the better it is for the whole community …
Posted on: 2020-04-19 22:50:14+00:00
Today, ASF Infra launched new features for projects wishing to update their notification schemes for git/github activity on their own.
Via the .asf.yaml file, projects can now define notification schemes for their repositories, including targets for commit emails, github events, as well as JIRA notification options.
To utilize …
Posted on: 2020-03-04 15:43:06+00:00
Infra member Daniel Gruno writes:
To better provide our millions of users with downloads, the Apache Infrastructure Team has been restructuring the way downloads work for our main distribution channels over the past few weeks. For users, this will largely go unnoticed, and for projects likely the same; but we …
Posted on: 2020-02-25 22:16:59+00:00
After some bumpy DNS issues, Roller 6.0 is live!
Posted on: 2020-01-05 18:54:30+00:00
The Infrastructure team (Infra) works behind the scenes to make it possible for Apache's galaxy of committers to do the cool stuff they do, and for the open-source world to get, use, and rely on applications Apache projects produce. Infra supports additions to code repositories, a constant stream of conversation …
Posted on: 2019-09-10 21:36:35+00:00
On August 31st 2019, the machine hosting our subversion-to-git mirrors and synchronization process for GitHub suffered a catastrophic drive error due to a power failure at our data center in Virginia. The power failure was, unfortunately, of such a nature, that recovering the disk data was not possible …
Posted on: 2019-04-30 01:08:58+00:00
With the news of the Apache Software Foundation teaming up more closely with GitHub, we feel it natural to elaborate a bit on what has been going on and what this means for you as a committer and/or user of Apache software.
Posted on: 2019-01-27 18:20:54+00:00
As our foundation grows, so do the number of users and robots utilizing our services. In order to accommodate as many as possible with what resources we have, we have opted to implement rate-limiting …
Posted on: 2019-01-10 05:08:48+00:00
We've updated blogs.a.o to the latest version of Roller, 5.2.2!!
Posted on: 2018-12-07 17:33:33+00:00
[IF YOUR PROJECT DOES NOT HAVE GIT REPOSITORIES ON GIT-WIP-US PLEASE DISREGARD THIS POST]
Hello Apache projects,
I am writing to you because you may have git repositories on the git-wip-us server, which is slated to be decommissioned in the coming months. All repositories will be moved to the new …
Posted on: 2018-09-17 07:55:22+00:00
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) seeks to fill an Infrastructure Systems Administrator position. You will be responsible for working with the existing technical infrastructure team. The ASF manages a world-wide network of open source software …
Posted on: 2017-03-26 01:07:08+00:00
When it comes to [Jenkins], it has long been known that [polling must die].
While we could go and create post commit hooks in all the ASF hosted Git repositories, that is something that realistically is just creating an added maintenance burden.
In any case, we have [GitPubSub].
The question …
Posted on: 2017-01-01 08:06:46+00:00
Hi All,
blogs.apache.org - the site you are reading now! has had a bit of an update.
1. We moved it from an aged VM Host to the Cloud (thanks LeaseWeb!)
2. We puppetised the entire service, from install to deploy (see our Github Mirror )
3. We upgraded the …
Posted on: 2016-07-25 20:07:36+00:00
UPDATE: We have received enough applicants at this time. Thank you all for your interest.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) seeks to fill an Infrastructure Systems Administrator/Architect position. You will be responsible for working with the existing technical infrastructure team, and VP of Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation …
Posted on: 2016-06-30 16:25:30+00:00
As people have noticed, our JIRA instance (arguably the largest public instance in the world) has been suffering from a yet unknown issue as of late. We are reasonably sure that this is related to specific queries being made against the instance (possibly automated queries from scrapers), but have yet …
Posted on: 2016-02-12 19:45:06+00:00
The ASF Infrastructure team is happy to announce that projects can how have AppVeyor CI setup on their GitHub mirrors.
The only thing you need to do is create an INFRA ticket at issues.apache.org with the following information:
Posted on: 2015-10-19 18:30:41+00:00
My name is Daniel Takamori and I'm so happy to be joining the Infra team here at Apache. I'm from Oregon in the United States and really enjoy the rain. While at Oregon State University I studied mathematics and physics with a lean towards error correcting codes and mathematical modelling …
Posted on: 2015-08-19 19:19:38+00:00
Posted on: 2015-08-03 23:07:37+00:00
There will be a planned reboot of Jira on Friday 7th August at 00:00 UTC.
This is 72 hours notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.
Currently, Jira requires a reboot when adding new projects to it. There is an outstanding
ticket with Atlassian about this …
Posted on: 2015-07-14 16:05:02+00:00
As some of you are aware, there have been some issues syncing changes from repositories on https://git-wip-us.apache.org to the mirrors on GitHub.
The issues we are seeing:
Posted on: 2015-06-29 21:17:45+00:00
Update (2015-06-30 ~12.00 UTC):
The replacement buildbot master is now live. The CMS service and the ci.apache.org website have been restored. The project CI builds are mostly working but builds that upload docs, snapshots etc. to the buildmaster for publishing are likely to fail at the upload …
Posted on: 2015-06-10 08:32:13+00:00
Hi All,
There will be a planned reboot of Confluence on Friday 12th June at 18:00 UTC+1
This is a blog post notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.
The Confluence wiki service configuration is stored in our Puppet configuration.
We have made some modifications …
Posted on: 2015-05-18 15:28:11+00:00
Hi All,
There will be a planned reboot of Jira on Thursday 21st May at 16:00 UTC+1
This is 72 hours notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.
Currently, Jira requires a reboot when adding new projects to it. There is an outstanding
ticket with …
Posted on: 2015-05-08 21:12:11+00:00
For the past few months the Infrastructure team have been working extremely hard to re-design, implement and manage changes to the email service architecture. Today we are proud to announce that phase 1 of this has been completed, and has been running for several days now.
Phase 1 covers all …
Posted on: 2015-04-29 23:02:29+00:00
As some of you may have already encountered, certain services within Apache appear to have broken SSL support. While the cert is still valid, there is a part of the cert that both Microsoft and Google have stopped accepting as valid. We are working on fixing this and will use …
Posted on: 2015-04-29 21:29:31+00:00
If you have worked on a web site for an Apache project, you've probably come across the fact that everything has to be in Subversion for web sites. The reason for this has been the desire to have a unified standard for publishing web site contents across all projects. The …
Posted on: 2015-04-15 20:32:10+00:00
Travis-CI is a distributed continuous integration platform that integrates well with projects on Github. As many of our projects are taking advantage of our Github integration, they're also making use of Travis-CI for testing of inbound patches.
Travis CI offers a free account for open source projects, with a built …
Posted on: 2015-04-13 20:21:14+00:00
As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline our service offerings, and to make it easier to interact with the Infrastructure team we are launching an instance of JIRA Service Desk.
This should make it much simpler to submit common JIRA issues, such as SVN->GIT migration, New wiki, New …
Posted on: 2015-01-12 15:02:12+00:00
Folks,
Please note than on Thursday 15th at 20:00 UTC the Infrastructure team
will be taking the read/write git repositories offline. We expect
that this migration to last about 4 hours.
During the outage the service will be migrated from an old host to a
new one. We …
Posted on: 2014-12-09 09:58:37+00:00
Summary
On Wednesday December 3rd the main US host for the ASF subversion service fails resulting in loss of service. This loss of subversion service prevent committers from submitting any changes, and whilst we have an EU mirror it is read-only and does not allow for any changes to be …
Posted on: 2014-12-03 17:52:32+00:00
The primary master machine that hosts the Apache Software Foundation's subversion repositories is currently undergoing some emergency maintenance due to disk errors.
We do not currently have an ETA on when this will be fixed.
In the meantime, there will be no access to commit to SVN.
The read-only mirror …
Posted on: 2014-11-21 12:17:17+00:00
In recent months we have become increasingly aware of a slowing down of our MoinMoin wiki service. We have attributed this, at least in part, due to the way MoinMoin stores some data about user accounts.
Across all of our wiki instances (in the farm) we had a little over …
Posted on: 2014-10-06 16:36:09+00:00
The ASF Infrastructure team is pleased to announce the availability of a new code signing service for Java, Windows and Android applications. This service is available to any Apache project to use to sign their releases. Traditionally, Apache projects have shipped source code. The code tarballs are signed with a …
Posted on: 2014-10-02 13:00:00+00:00
The ASF Infrastructure team is happy to announce that you can now set up jobs on builds.apache.org to listen for pull requests to github.com/apache repositories, build that pull request’s changes, and then comment on the pull request with the build’s results. This is done …
Posted on: 2014-09-25 23:38:41+00:00
Apache committers are granted shell access to a host know as either people.apache.org or minotaur. As you may know, there has been a two year grace period in which we have advertised the upcoming change away from password logins to SSH key only.
Due to a recent significant …
Posted on: 2014-09-25 22:57:44+00:00
For a very long time now we have allowed committers to send email from their @apache.org email address from any host. 10 years ago this was less of an issue than it is today. In the current world of mass spam and junk flying around, mail server providers are …
Posted on: 2014-09-11 09:19:46+00:00
HI All,
So Tuesday morning we got a report in IRC that a committer was trying to get a release out
and could not deploy. Shortly after a Nexus issue was reported in Jira INFRA-8321. A few
hours later another issue INFRA-8322 related to Nexus was opened. So far, nothing …
Posted on: 2014-09-04 13:00:00+00:00
Posted on: 2014-08-18 13:00:00+00:00
As the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has grown, the infrastructure required to support its diverse set of projects has grown as well. To care for the infrastructure that the ASF depends on, the foundation has hired several contractors to supplement the dedicated cadre of volunteers who help maintain the ASFs …
Posted on: 2014-08-14 13:45:53+00:00
We are pleased to announce that we have a new status page for our infrastructure and the ASF as a whole.
Where we have previously been focused on reporting the up/down status of our services, we have now begun to look a bit more at the broader picture of …
Posted on: 2014-06-15 02:29:06+00:00
Good news! We've finally laid the necessary groundwork to extend the bypassing of committer emails sent from their apache.org addresses, from commit lists to now all Apache mailing lists. This feature was activated earlier today and represents a significant benefit for cross-collaboration between Apache mailing lists for committers, relieving …
Posted on: 2014-06-03 21:57:08+00:00
Since Yahoo! switched their DMARC policy in mid-April, we've seen an increase in undeliverable messages sent from our mail server for Yahoo! accounts subscribed to our lists. Roughly half of Apache's mailing lists do some form of message munging, whether it be Subject header prefixes, appended message trailers, or removed …
Posted on: 2014-05-28 05:16:39+00:00
Overview:
During the afternoon of May 6th we began experiencing delays in mail delivery of 1-2 hours. Initial efforts at remediation seemed to clear this up but on the morning of May 7th the problem worsened and we proactively disabled mail service to deal with the failure. This outage affected …
Posted on: 2014-05-23 22:29:12+00:00
23 may 2014 the old monitoring system "nagios" was put to sleep, and "circonus" was given production status.
The new monitoring system is sponsored by circonus and most of the monitoring as well as the central database runs on www.circonus.com. The infrastructure team have built and deployed logic …
Posted on: 2014-05-07 14:48:16+00:00
During the afternoon of May 6th we began experiencing delays in mail delivery of 1-2 hours. Initial efforts at remediation seemed to clear this up but on the morning of May 7th the problem worsened and we proactively disabled mail service to deal with the failure. The underlying hardware suffered …
Posted on: 2014-04-11 20:25:44+00:00
Remain calm.
What we've learned about the heartbleed incident is that it is hard, in the sense of perhaps only viable to a well-funded blackhat operation, to steal a private certificate and key from a vulnerable service. Nevertheless, the central role Apache projects play in the modern software development world …
Posted on: 2014-03-25 18:23:50+00:00
The original focus of the CMS was to provide the tools necessary for handling http://www.apache.org/ and similar Anakia-based sites. The scope quickly changed when Apache OpenOffice was accepted into the incubator... handling over 9GB of content well was quite an undertaking and will be soon discussed at …
Posted on: 2014-02-12 01:16:30+00:00
After a few weeks of hard work and mind-boggling debugging, we are pleased to announce tighter and smarter integration between GitHub and the Apache Software Foundation's infrastructure.
These new features mean a much higher level of replication and retention of what goes on on GitHub, which in turns both help …
Posted on: 2013-03-06 18:37:42+00:00
Today, the Apache Infrastructure team launched http://paste.apache.org, a new ASF-driven site for posting snippets, scripts, logging output, configurations and much more and sharing them with the world.
Why yet another paste bin, you ask?
Well, for starters, this site is different in that is it run by …
Posted on: 2012-07-26 02:35:47+00:00
Since out last update over a year ago, the Infra Team has expanded by another NINE (9) members!
Congrats and our warmest thanks go to:
Niklas Gustavsson - (ngn)
Jeremy Thomerson - (jrthomerson)
Mark Struberg - (struberg)
Eric Evans - (eevans)
Brandon Williams - (brandonwilliams)
Mohammad Nour El-Din - (mnour)
David Nalley - (ke4qqq)
Yang Shih-Ching - (imacat …
Posted on: 2012-07-09 16:49:30+00:00
Daniel Gruno has recently developed a comments system for Apache projects to use. The purpose of the system is to enable public commentary on project webpages and is already in production use in the httpd and trafficserver projects. This new system nicely complements the ASF CMS system and trivially integrates …
Posted on: 2012-06-24 13:37:50+00:00
Two new features have recently been added to the CMS, courtesy of David Blevins. These features are geared towards streamlining the user experience for anonymous users. The first feature is "Quick Mail", which is the analog of "Quick Commit" but for anonymous users who cannot otherwise commit their changes directly …
Posted on: 2012-06-09 21:45:27+00:00
Consider the following snippet taken from a live CGI script running on the host that serves www.apache.org:
#!/usr/bin/perluse strict; use warnings;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; my $artifact = "/apache-tomee/1.0.1-SNAPSHOT/"; $artifact = $ENV{PATH_INFO} if $ENV{PATH_INFO};
$artifact = "/$artifact/"; $artifact =~ s,/+,/,g; $artifact …
Posted on: 2012-05-29 16:59:09+00:00
Last week, internal audit activity discovered that the access logs of some committer-only Apache services contained passwords but had been available to every Apache committer.
The httpd logs of several ASF services are aggregated and archived on minotaur.apache.org. Minotaur is also people.apache.org, the shell …
Posted on: 2012-03-10 17:28:05+00:00
Recently we've been working with the maven team to facilitate migration of maven.apache.org to the Apache CMS, using maven as the core build system instead of the standard perl build scripts. A mockup has been created at maventest.apache.org to see how this will work. Once the …
Posted on: 2012-02-26 02:23:56+00:00
Over the past few months the Apache CMS has seen lots of new improvements, all under the general theme of making the system more performant. Supporting very large sites like the Apache OpenOffice User Site with almost 10 GB of content has presented new challenges, met largely with the introduction …
Posted on: 2011-12-11 20:30:33+00:00
A few projects have requested it, now it is here! Check out https://translate.apache.org and get your project added.
See also https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/translate+pootle+service+auth+levels for more information - you will see that general public non-logged in users can submit translate …
Posted on: 2011-04-15 05:32:23+00:00
Any projects in the position of being able to release via PEAR packages can now do so hosted officially on ASF servers.
http://pear.apache.org is now up and running and ready to serve!
Posted on: 2011-03-22 10:09:45+00:00
Well, some are not exactly new faces, but since our last blog update of new infra members in 2009 , we have conned with promises of fame, fortune and beer the following new additions to the infra team:
Posted on: 2011-02-24 21:13:18+00:00
In the near future the Infrastructure team will be implementing a change to the way we handle emails for all committers.
Historically we have allowed users to choose how to handle their apache.org email. However we will be making the following changes:
Posted on: 2011-01-27 15:37:21+00:00
Committers,
The Infrastructure Team has just enabled a new feature to control your SpamAssassin Threshold for your apache.org account. The default score for user delivery has always remained at 10, but with this new feature you can lower that score to anything you want. Many people with older accounts …
Posted on: 2011-01-14 16:36:42+00:00
Folks,
The infrastructure team are pleased to announce the availability of id.apache.org the new password management tool for all ASF committers and members. This new service will allow users to:
Posted on: 2010-12-17 06:38:50+00:00
As of approximately 03:00 (UTC) today the infrastructure team have enabled a password policy for all LDAP accounts.
This policy has been implemented at the LDAP infrastructure level and will affect all users. It has been deployed using OpenLDAP's password policy schema, and overlay.
At the time of launch …
Posted on: 2010-12-02 04:25:43+00:00
Over the past 3 months, the Infrastructure Team has developed and deployed a custom CMS for Apache projects to use to manage their websites. There is a document available which explains the rationale, role, and future plans for the CMS. We have opened up the ACLs for the www.apache …
Posted on: 2010-10-26 03:25:49+00:00
We know we have projects that use reviewboard externally to the ASF, we also have some projects using codereview.appspot.com and we also have some projects using Fisheye/Clover externally.
Well, due to popular request, we now have an internal ReviewBoard running on https://reviews.apache.org !!
So, sign …
Posted on: 2010-09-23 11:55:55+00:00
Yesterday, the main ASF SVN code repository passed the 1 million commit mark. Shortly thereafter one of the ASF members enquired as to how he could best grab the svn log entries for all of these commits. As always there were a bunch of useful replies, but they were all …
Posted on: 2010-07-19 04:01:07+00:00
This weekend we rolled out a new server, a Dell Power Edge R410, named Eos, to host the Apache.org websites and MoinMoin wiki:
Posted on: 2010-06-11 17:17:46+00:00
Today we've brought s.apache.org online. It's a url shortening service that's limited to Apache committers- the people who write all that Apache software! One of the main reasons we're providing this service is to allow committers to use shortened links whose provenance is known to be a trusted …
Posted on: 2010-04-13 05:04:50+00:00
Apache.org services recently suffered a direct, targeted attack against our infrastructure, specifically the server hosting our issue-tracking software.
The Apache Software Foundation uses a donated instance of Atlassian JIRA as an issue tracker for our projects. Among other projects, the ASF Infrastructure Team uses it to track issues and …
Posted on: 2010-03-29 10:25:59+00:00
Here at the ASF we have a subversion setup with all our projects code in one repository, with each of those projects having their own style of trunk/branches/tags/site etc.. This works well for us, but did present us with some initial problems when setting up our Buildbot …
Posted on: 2010-03-04 22:03:23+00:00
The ASF Buildbot CI instance has just launched two more slaves, expanding the range of platforms it can build and test on.
Added are slaves on the FreeBSD 8 platform (a VM on the Nyx VMware host) and a Solaris Zone.
Projects are welcome to create an Infra issue or …
Posted on: 2010-02-22 22:17:39+00:00
When we decided some time ago to start using LDAP for auth{n,z} we had to come up with a sane structure, this is what we have thus far.
dc=apache,dc=org
| ou=people,dc=apache,dc=org
| ou=groups,dc=apache,dc=org
| ou=people,ou=groups …
Posted on: 2010-02-22 22:03:20+00:00
The infrastructure team have now completed the next stage of the planned LDAP migration.
We have migrated our old SVN authorisation file, and POSIX groups into LDAP data. SVN access control is now managed using these groups.
This means to change access the Subversion repositories is now as simple as …
Posted on: 2010-02-17 00:41:04+00:00
Tonight we enabled a pair of Intel X25-M's to serve as l2arc cache for the zfs array which contains all of our svn repositories. Over the next few hours as these SSD's start serving files from cache, the responsiveness and overall performance of svn on eris (our master US-based server …
Posted on: 2009-11-09 13:01:12+00:00
The below information has just been published to the main ASF Buildbot URI ci.apache.org/buildbot.html.
A summary of just some of the things the ASF Buildbot can do for your project:
Posted on: 2009-10-12 01:53:03+00:00
In the first week of October we started getting reports of performance issues, mainly connection timeouts, on all of our services hosted at https://issues.apache.org/. On further inspection we noticed a huge amount of "Browser disconnect" errors in the error log right at the beginning of the ssl …
Posted on: 2009-09-02 08:56:09+00:00
Last week we posted about the security breach that caused us to temporarily suspend some services. All services
have now been restored. We have analyzed the events that led to the breach, and continued to work on improving the security of our systems.
Posted on: 2009-08-28 12:33:19+00:00
This is a short overview of what happened on Friday August 28 2009 to the apache.org services. A more detailed post will come at a later time after we complete the audit of all machines involved.
On August 27th, starting at about 18:00 UTC an account used for …
Posted on: 2009-08-01 12:24:57+00:00
One of the more common issues committers face at Apache is in trying to send mail from their apache.org account. We've just made that process a whole lot easier by setting up an SSL-enabled, smtp-auth based mail submission service on people.apache.org port 465; which is compatible with …
Posted on: 2009-07-15 06:59:48+00:00
Previously, to be able to preview a draft post by any Roller Blog, one had to be a member user of that blog.
For those that would like an easy way to post previews of drafts for lazy consensus or voting, a script has been setup to allow the preview …
Posted on: 2009-07-07 07:04:25+00:00
The ASF Infrastructure Team will be upgrading the Confluence instance powering http://cwiki.apache.org from Confluence 2.2.9 to Confluence 2.10.3 on July 11 at 0400 UTC, or July 10 at 2100 PST. The migration is expected to take several hours.
If you haven't already, this …
Posted on: 2009-05-21 16:01:19+00:00
Earlier this week the Infrastructure team rolled out phase one of the planned LDAP services.
We are using LDAP for authentication of shell accounts. For now this is the extent of the implementation, however the next phase should follow this quite quickly.
The next phase will involve moving to LDAP …
Posted on: 2009-05-03 22:22:57+00:00
Git is a new version control system that has been getting increasingly popular during the past few years. Many Apache contributors have also expressed interested in using Git for working with Apache codebases. While the canonical location of all Apache source code is our Subversion repository, we also want to …
Posted on: 2009-04-06 09:14:11+00:00
Established today, we now have a dedicated mailing list to talk about and work out all things to do with our build services. Currently infrastructure provides projects with use of Hudson, Continuum, Gump and now we have another option in Buildbot. Buildbot is a new service here at Apache Infrastructure …
Posted on: 2009-04-02 20:47:41+00:00
This week the ASF Infrastructure Team deployed one of the first major changes to how svn.apache.org works since it was launched, 6 years ago.
We now distribute Subversion traffic to our servers based on the geographic region of a client.
We are using pgeodns, the same software that …
Posted on: 2009-04-02 17:47:53+00:00
Last week (at ApacheCon 2009 EU) I gave a session talk about "Subversion on-the-fly Replication" and how we (ASF) deployed such an setup last year with in the Apache Software Foundation. So check out the slides if you are interested in how it works, why you should do it, what …
Posted on: 2009-03-26 16:56:58+00:00
As of this afternoon whilst at ApacheCon Europe 2009, we have gotten our initial LDAP platform in place ready for testing. This will allow us to move to a centralized AAA system.
Posted on: 2009-03-25 18:39:01+00:00
In preparation for upgrading Subversion to the latest version (1.6.0), we are running an svn dump on svn.apache.org. This will chew up enough disk IO to be noticeable to svn users. We expect the dump to finish sometime during this weekend.
Posted on: 2009-03-25 02:28:20+00:00
Over the past year the Infrastructure Team has grown to meet new challenges. Here is a list of the new folks on the team:
Congratulate these people on …
Posted on: 2009-03-23 00:29:41+00:00
Roller was installed today for the use of ASF Projects. Those committers with personal blogs should instead add their feed to planet.apache.org.
Still a few things to sort out, but blogs.apache.org is mostly ready.
Any project that wants a blog, please can a PMC member email …
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