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
- Pasting data to share with others
- URL shortener for committers
Project Management Committees (PMC)
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.
Machine and host list of Apache servers

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 project committers
- How committers can publish a personal website
- 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...

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

Software Product Releases¶

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 interestaed 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 mailing lists, such as legal-discuss@, community@ and various announcement lists.
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 mail-archives.apache.org by going to the specific project list, then append the mbox filename to the URL (e.g. mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201210.mbox)
- Raw mbox archive files are available for every mailing list.
- Each project website has a "mail" directory, e.g. httpd.apache.org/mail/ (see notes).
- For top-level/non-project mailing lists see www.apache.org/mail/ directory.

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.