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Developer Information
Overview
Here are resources pertinent to developers, committers, release managers and Project Management Committee (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 ready to help.
Infrastructure
Committers and Contributors
URL shortener for committers
Project Management Committees (PMC)
Version control
Websites
Releases
Issue tracking
Mailing lists
Licenses and legal issues
Board of Directors and ASF Governance
Apache Infrastructure
Here are links to high-level information about The ASF's infrastructure, and the Infrastructure team (Infra) that maintains it.
infra.apache.org
has more detailed information for projects, contributors, and committers:
Policies and guidelines
Services and tools for projects
How to become an
Infra Volunteer
Host and service status monitor
. Infa has already been alerted if a service shows as down.
Infra's
Confluence Wiki area
has detailed technical information, script snippets, and other resources to help Project Management Committees do what they need to do.
If you cannot find the resource or guidance you need,
contact Infra
Committers and Contributors
How the ASF works
(See also
Contact Apache FAQ
and
ASF FAQ
Guide for project contributors
Email etiquette tips for contributors
Guide for new project committers
General
Committers FAQ
Crowd funding
Community funding disclaimer
Project Management Committees (PMCs)
The project PMC must be involved in any requests for Infrastructure assistance. Remember that PMCs can handle many infrastructure items themselves. Read the
PMC FAQ
Learn how to...
...
create an ASF Top-Level Project
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choose names for ASF projects and products
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request a new committer account
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request karma
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report issues and request project resources
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manage your project website
Learn
the duties of the PMC Chairs
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 for 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 an
issue tracker
of their choice to
track bugs, enhancement requests, and other action items - typically GitHub Issues, Jira, or BugZilla.
Check the
website of the project in which you are interested to learn what they use.
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, such as
legal-discuss@
geospatial@@
and various announcement lists. These are at the above link, under the 'apache' domain. Some lists may require you to log in.
Privacy notes
about non-public lists and about
balancing confidentiality and public discussion
Email etiquette tips for contributors
How to
moderate Apache mailing lists
All Apache mailing lists are archived:
Read most Apache
list archives on lists.apache.org
Raw mbox archive files are available for every mailing list, at
(For example,
There is also a download button at the top of any page on lists.apache.org where can download an mbox for whatever view you are looking at.
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.
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