Services and Tools

Infra maintains a wide range of tools for PMCs, project committers, and the Apache Board to use. Parts of our toolkit are only available to people who have specific duties or roles. Others, like the monitoring tools that show the status of various parts of the Apache infrastructure, are available to everyone.

Websites¶

ASF websites.
An index of all ASF projects.
www.apache.org is the main ASF website. Build instructions are here.
Details about individual ASF Committers.
Notes about committers' personal web spaces.

Email¶

All requests for new mailing lists should go through the self-serve system. Remember not to mark a list as private if you want it publicly archived.
Mail server - QMail/QSMTPD
mailing lists - EZMLM
Searchable private mailing list archives (mod_mbox). ASF Members have full access; PMC members have access to their PMC's archives only.
Spam control - Spamfilter + SpamAssassin
Mail forwarding: See id.apache.org
PonyMail lets you browse Apache email archives by certain categories, by user, or by project. You must log in if you want to respond to an email, or write a new one, through this interface.
Infra maintains and uses a series of mailing lists, some of which are open to committers.

ASF Self-Service Platform

One of Infra's goals is to empower ASF members, PMCs, and committers to do much of what they need to do without having to request help from Infra. The Self-Service Platform, for example, provides a number of handy tools that people who have an Apache email address (basically, project committers, PMC members, and ASF Members) can:

Create a new Jira or Confluence project, Git repository, or mailing list (PMC Chairs and Infra members).
Edit your ASF identity or update your ASF password. If you are updating your password, you need access to the email account associated with your Apache account. A reset key is only valid for 15 minutes, so be sure to use it as soon as it arrives.
Synchronize Git repositories.
Use the OTP Calculator to generate passwords for the OTP or S/Key one-time-password systems (generally, PMC members).
Archive a Confluence Space and make it read-only.

Locked out of the system?

If you have forgotten your password and cannot retrieve it, contact Infrastructure via root@apache.org for assistance.

Before asking for a manual password reset or email change, please consider:

If you have access to an ASF machine via SSH (with a private key), you can use this to confirm your identity.
If you don't have access to anything to establish your identity, you may be asked to file a new ICLA.

Getting notices of infrastructure events

You can subscribe to notices of infrastructure events that you want to know about, ranging from Subversion commits to emails to specific lists. Learn more here.

LDAP-enabled services

Infra supports many ASF LDAP-enabled services. You can log in to them with your LDAP credentials.

Tools for ASF projects

PMC tools

Reporter provides actvitity statistics and other information about your project, and editing tools to help you write and submit your project's quarterly Board reports.
You can create and run a project blog.
You can establish a Slack channel for real-time team discussions.
Teams can conduct and record meetings through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using ASFBot.
Localization tools.
The Apache Release Audit Tool (RAT) can help you confirm that your proposed product release complies with all ASF requirements.

Version control¶

Apache provides, and Infra maintains, code repositories that Apache projects can use to keep their project code safe, accessible to team members, and under version control.

Issue tracking and feature requests¶

Projects can use either of these bug-tracking and feature request tools:

Here is how to request a bug and issue tracker for your project.

For historical reasons, some projects have their own instances of Jira or Bugzilla. See issues.apache.org for a list.

Review Apache's bug reporting guidelines.

Integrating your repository with Jira tickets¶

Infra can activate a Subversion and Git integration with Jira tickets for your project.

Source repository publisher/subscriber services¶

SvnPubSub
PyPubSub

Build services
Apache supports and models continuous integration and continuous deployment, or CI/CD. The Apache Build services site provides more information, and links to these build tools:

BuildBot

Gump

Jenkins

Other tools to consider:

Travis CI

Appveyor

Code signing

Digicert
- Requesting access to the Digicert code signing service
- Using Digicert
- Digicert use statistics by Apache projects
For distribution via the Apple App Store
For the Google code signing service for Android apps
More information on code signing and publishing

Code Distribution

Use the ASF Nexus Repository Manager to browse for and review code distributions by ASF projects.

Virtual servers¶

Infra can provide Ubuntu virtual machines for projects. See:

Distributions¶

Build services / CI¶

Information about our build and continuous integration tools is on this page.

Code quality

SonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages. You can check the status of many Apache project repositories <a href="https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/apache/projects" target="_blank>here.

Online voting

Projects can use the Apache Steve voting system instance (offline when not in use).

Other¶

DNS¶

Infra manages the ASF DNS, which is registered with Namecheap.

IRC Services¶

For IRC Services on the Freenode IRC Network, see wilderness.apache.org.

URL shortener

Sharing Snippets

Paste is a service that lets ASF members post code snippets or similar file extracts they want to share to illustrate a code issue or make available for reuse, usually with other project members. You can post content as plain text, or formatted for a number of coding and scripting languages.