Services and Tools - Apache Infrastructure Website

Services and Tools - Apache Infrastructure Website
Services and Tools
Note
: 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. ABC also provides a channel to contact Infra if you need more information than the page provides.
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.
Services for Top-Level Projects (TLPs)
Websites
Email
ASF self-service platform
ASF account management
Getting notices of infrastructure events
LDAP-enabled services
Services for incubating projects (podlings)
Tools for ASF projects
Version control
Issue tracking and feature requests
Integrating your repository with Jira tickets
Source repository publisher/subscriber services
Build services
Dependency management
Product naming
Code signing
Code quality
Code distribution
Virtual servers
Online voting
Visual Studio
: The ASF has a presence in the
Visual Studio Marketplace
. Several projects have posted extensions there to make it easier for their developers to work in VS on their product's code. Projects which would like to add their extensions to the Marketplace should make the request to Infra in a Jira ticket.
Other tools
DNS
URL shortener
Logging
Machine list
Services for Top-Level Projects (TLPs)
Websites
www.apache.org
is the main ASF website.
ASF project websites
ASF project website sources
An index of
all ASF projects
(if they have set up a DOAP).
Any ASF project can use the
ASF-Pelican template
as the basis for their project website.
Details about individual
ASF Committers
Notes about committers'
personal web spaces
The
Apache Project Website Checker
periodically reviews all TLP websites and reports whether they comply with Apache's
policies for TLP websites
Email
Watch out for
phishing
Emailing tips
All requests for new email lists should go through the
self-serve system
. Remember not to mark a list as private if you want it publicly archived.
Email server - QMail/QSMTPD
email lists
- EZMLM
Searchable
email list archives
. ASF Members have full access to private emails; PMC members have access to their PMC's archives only.
Review
details about searching and creating emails
in
lists.apache.org
Spam control - Spamfilter + SpamAssassin
Email forwarding: See
id.apache.org
Infra maintains and uses a series of
email 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 use to:
Create a Jira or Confluence project, Git repository, or email 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 one-time passwords for the OTP or S/Key one-time-password systems (generally, PMC members).
Archive a Confluence Wiki space and make it read-only.
People who are not part of the ASF community but wish to file a Jira ticket about an ASF project's product can use the platform to
request a Jira account
ASF account management
ASF account management
provides guidance if you want to update your account details, or have lost access to your account.
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](pypubsub.html).
LDAP-enabled services
Infra supports many ASF
LDAP-enabled services
. You can log in to them with your LDAP credentials.
Services for incubating projects (podlings)
Infra supports incubating projects, or podlings.
An introduction to
Infra and the Incubator
, showing the steps for setting up a new podling.
Guidance for
selecting a project or product name
Tools for ASF projects
Infra supports an array of tools and services to help projects develop and support both their applications and their community, including:
Every project can use a dedicated space on the
Confluence wiki
How to
manage user permissions
in your project's wiki space.
How to
give a user edit access
to the wiki space.
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. Once you have your Slack channel, Infra can set up a
Slack-Jira bridge
so that you get notices in your channel of new or updated Jira tickets. open a Jira ticket for INFRA to get this feature for your TLP's Slack channel.
Teams can conduct and record meetings through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using
ASFBot
. However, you must conduct formal votes on decisions in the appropriate project email list, following the
Apache voting process
Localization tools
The Apache
Release Audit Tool (RAT)
can help you confirm that your proposed product release complies with all ASF requirements.
The ASF
OAuth
system provides a focal point for services wishing to make use of authentication without security implications around storing sensitive user data. Many Apache services use it to validate that the user requesting access is a committer within the project and has lawful access to the systems in question.
Read more about Apache OAuth
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.
Information about
using Git
Read-only Git mirrors of SVN codebases
Writable Git repositories
Apache and GitHub
Access roles for GitHub repositories
Information about
using Subversion
Subversion (SVN) repositories
ViewVC (Browser interface to the main SVN repository)
Issue tracking and feature requests
The ASF supports these options for tracking issues and feature requests:
Jira
(Note:
qbot
is a tool that can integrate Jira notifications with a project's channel in the
the-asf
Slack
workspace.)
The
GitHub issue tracking feature
For historical reasons, some projects use
Bugzilla
. We continue to support Bugzilla, but will not set it up for projects that do not already use it.
Apache Allura
is another issue-tracking option. If you feel it may meet your project's needs, consult directly with the Allura project through their
users@allura.apache.org
email list.
See
issues.apache.org
for a list of what each project uses.
Here is how to
request a bug and issue tracker for your project
Here are some guidelines for
writing a good bug report
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
ASF build and supported services
page provides information about, and links to, the CI services the ASF provides and/or supports.
Other tools to consider:
Dependabot
for automated dependency updates
Travis CI
AppVeyor
Dependency management
Dependabot
automatically keeps your project's dependencies up to date and free of known vulnerabilities. It is
required
for the
github-actions
ecosystem (see the
GitHub Actions Policy
), and recommended for all other ecosystems your project uses.
Product naming
See
guidance for choosing a product name
Code signing
Code signing service
Requesting access to the
code signing service
Using the code signing service
Digicert (service ends 2024-11-01)
Requesting access to the
Digicert code signing service
Using Digicert
Cryptography with OpenPGP
For
distribution via the Apple App Store
Code quality
SonarCloud
is a code quality and security tool that is free to open-source projects. It permits continuous inspection of code quality so your project can perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities in 20+ programming languages.
You can
check the status of many Apache project repositories
Guidance for using SonarCloud with an ASF project is
here
Code distribution
Use the ASF
Nexus Repository Manager
to browse for and review code distributions by ASF projects.
Distributions
Current distributions
Historical distribution archives
Rsync for distribution mirrors
Nexus
Virtual servers
Infra can provide Ubuntu virtual machines for projects. See:
Virtual machine policy
Process for requesting a vm
Use of nightlies.a.o
nightlies, as implied by its name, is designed as a 'short term' storage solution. See the
nightlies use policy
Online voting
Projects can use the
Apache STeVe
voting system instance (offline when not in use). The tool name refers to the
single transferable vote
system that is one of its voting options. Open a Jira ticket for Infra to provide assistance in preparing STeVe for your project's use.
Other tools
DNS
Infra manages the ASF DNS, which is registered with Namecheap.
URL shortener
URL shortener
Infra Reporting Dashboard
The
ASF Infrastructure Reporting Dashboard
contains a collection of reports on the overall health and activity of the infrastructure at the ASF. Some reports are available only for ASF Members and Infra team members.
Machine list
Host Keys and Fingerprints
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