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The main topic was a deep dive into <strong>asf.yaml</strong>, the Swiss Army Knife of ASF build utilities.</p> <p>The next version of .asf.yaml addresses a number of headaches with the first version, such …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_01-25.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_12_24.html">Inside Infra December 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-12-21 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p><strong>Welcome to Inside Infra for December, 2024</strong></p> <p>The <strong>December roundtable</strong> did not take place due to presenter illness. We have pushed its topic to next month. That roundtable will be <strong>Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 1700 UTC</strong>. The main topic will be a deep dive into <strong>asf.yaml</strong>, the Swiss Army …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_12_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_11_24.html">Inside Infra November 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-11-28 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p><strong>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for November, 2024</strong></p> <h2>Two November Roundtables</h2> <p>Infra held two Roundtables this month. The November 6 meeting was at 1700 UTC (more convenient for folks in Europe and North America) and the meeting on the 13th was at 1000 UTC in hopes that ASF folks in Asia …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_11_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_10_24.html">Inside Infra October 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-10-27 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p><strong>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for October, 2024</strong></p> <h3>Dealing with phishing attempts</h3> <p>We are seeing a sharp increase in 'phishing attempts', fake emails pretending to come from various ASF groups and committees. Infra has some <a href="https://infra.apache.org/phishing.html" target="_blank">anti-phishing advice</a> to help you avoid falling for these fake messages.</p> <h3>Infra at Community over Code …</h3></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_10_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_09_24.html">Inside Infra September 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-09-20 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for September, 2024</p> <h3>A staffing change</h3> <p>Chis Thistlethwaite, who has been an important part of the Infrastructure team for almost nine years, is moving on to another project. His last day of work at The ASF is October 11, 2024.</p> <p>Chris will be at Community over …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_09_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_08_24.html">Inside Infra August 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-08-23 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for August, 2024</p> <h2>The HR Department</h2> <p>The <a href="https://infra.apache.org/qbot.html">Qbot assistant</a> in the ASF Slack workspace is continuing to evolve. The latest addition is <strong>Lauren</strong>, a member of the imaginary ASF Human Resources department. Lauren occasionally appears in Infra team conversations, and we thought it would be fair …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_08_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/end_of_home.html">You can't go home again</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-08-13 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>25 years ago, it was somewhat difficult for people to put personal content onto the web, so the ASF provided that feature for our committers. It was first known as <code>people.apache.org</code> and later as <code>home.apache.org</code>. Many ASF committers have made use of the service, and it …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/end_of_home.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_07_24.html">Inside Infra July 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-07-22 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for July, 2024.</p> <h2>Qbot can help you on Slack</h2> <p>The Infrastructure team's Qbot is a Slack assistant that can simplify both important and frivolous tasks on Slack channels in the the-asf workspace. It can support requests in channels for PMCs, ASF committees, the ASF Board and …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_07_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_06_24.html">Inside Infra June 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-06-24 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for June, 2024.</p> <p><strong>A change to website creation and builds for projects</strong></p> <p>Many ASF projects, and the Infrastructure team, have been using the ASF-pelican template and service to build and deploy their websites. Infra has decided to deprecate its customized buildsite offerings in favor of those …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_06_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_05_24.html">Inside Infra May 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-05-24 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for May, 2024.</p> <h2>Roundtable</h2> <p>The May 2024 Roundtable took place on May 8. The topic of the day was "STeVe for projects: how PMCs can use the STeVe voting tool".</p> <p>Infra member Chris Wells reviewed what Apache STeVe is for, and the many voting situations it …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_05_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_04_24.html">Inside Infra April 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-04-25 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <em>Inside Infra</em> for April, 2024.</p> <h2>Infra Reporting Dashboard</h2> <p>The dashboard, at <a href="https://infra-reports.apache.org/" target="_blank">infra-reports.apache.org</a>, provides a collection of reports on the overall health and activity of the infrastructure at the ASF. These reports can be helpful in understanding the status of all the ASF 'under the hood' resources …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_04_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_03_24.html">Inside Infra March 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-03-23 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Welcome to <strong>Inside Infra</strong> for March, 2024.</p> <h3>Policy change on use of GitHub Actions</h3> <p>Due to misconfigurations in their builds, some projects have been using unsupportable numbers of GitHub Actions. As part of fixing this situation, Infra has added a 'resource use' section to the policy on GitHub Actions. This …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_03_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_02_24.html">Inside Infra February 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-02-20 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p><em>Hello, all!</em></p> <h2>Newsletter name</h2> <p>Our very unscientific poll showed that "Inside Infra" has the most support as a name for this newsletter, so that is what we shall be.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: in 2020 the main ASF blog published a series of interviews with Infra team members also called "Inside Infra". Links …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_02_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/2023 Infra Survey Results.html">2023 Infra Survey Results</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-02-13 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>More than 50 people posted responses to our 2023 'year in review' survey. Here is a summary of the responses to questions and the comments added in each section.</p> <p>We're grateful to those who took the time to fill out the survey. Without feedback like this, the Infra team can …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/2023 Infra Survey Results.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/newsletter_01_24.html">The Infra Newsletter January 2024</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2024-01-20 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Hi, all!</p> <p>Someone who responded to our annual survey (see below) suggested that we start a newsletter to share developments and other news. The suggester thought we should send it to the <code>dev@</code> list of every PMC and PPMC, but we are going to start with a more limited distribution …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/newsletter_01_24.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/add_wisdom.html">Add your wisdom to Infra</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2023-11-17 01:55:55+00:00</p> <p><p>Committers, contributors, and ASF Members have a wealth of information about every aspect of software and community development. When we share our knowledge, its reach multiplies and our effectiveness increases.</p> <p>For the infrastructure that supports all our efforts at the ASF, here are some ways to share what you know …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/add_wisdom.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/gradle_at_the_ASF.html">Gradle has landed at the ASF.</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2023-09-29 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><h1>Gradle has landed at the ASF!</h1> <p>Gradle, a longtime leader in developer productivity and build analytics, has become a platinum-level sponsor of the ASF. The ASF instance of Develocity, formerly Gradle Enterprise, is at <a href="https://develocity.apache.org" target="_blank"><a href="https://develocity.apache.org">https://develocity.apache.org</a></a>.</p> <h2>But what is it?</h2> <p>Develocity is a suite of acceleration and analytics …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/gradle_at_the_ASF.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/brand-new-selfserve-page.html">Brand New Self-serve Page</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2023-03-01 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Greetings all!</p> <p>We're announcing a new look for selfserve.apache.org today! It's a completely updated site, featuring a new layout which we hope will suit everyone better. The new update also cleans up a some tech debt we've had with the old site, so adding new features or integrations …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/brand-new-selfserve-page.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/2022_Infra_Survey_Results.html">2022 Infra Survey Results</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2023-01-11 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><h3>Intro</h3> <p>I'd like to thank everyone who took time to take the survey. This is the first time that I know of that we've tried something like this, and feedback is very important. I'd also like to take a second to clarify my tone for this article. I'm presenting as …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/2022_Infra_Survey_Results.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/the_joy_of_feedback.html">The Joy of Feedback (2022 Infra Survey)</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-12-01 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>In discussions at ApacheCon in New Orleans, we learned that the three standard methods of communicating with Infra: </p> <ul> <li>opening a Jira ticket </li> <li>sending an email </li> <li>posting a message on the <code>#asfinfra</code> Slack channel</li> </ul> <p>are not ideal for many conversations folks would like to have about The ASF's infrastructure.</p> <h2>Roundtable Discussions …</h2></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/the_joy_of_feedback.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new-jenkins-nodes-running-windows.html">New Jenkins Nodes running Windows</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-11-21 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new-jenkins-nodes-running-windows.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/jira-public-signup-disabled.html">Jira Public Signup Disabled</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-11-11 16:48:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Today, the Infrastructure Team took the step to disable public signups to ASF Jira</p> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/jira-public-signup-disabled.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/Blogs has a new home.html">Infra blogs has a new home</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-10-24 12:54:00+00:00</p> <p><p>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.</p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/Blogs has a new home.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/email-service-interruption-and-restoration.html">Email service interruption and restoration July 12, 2022</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-07-13 16:41:38+00:00</p> <p><p><b>July 13, 2022</b></p><p><span style='color: rgb(23, 43, 77); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;'>At around 09:11 UTC on Tuesday, July 12th 2022, the primary mailing list server (colloquially known as <b>Hermes</b>) at The Apache Software Foundation suffered a fatal breakdown and became unresponsive.</span><br/></p><p style='margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(23, 43, 77); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;'>The Infrastructure team (Infra) was immediately notified and, in cooperation with our data center provider, attempted …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/email-service-interruption-and-restoration.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/strengthening-the-infra-team.html">Strengthening the Infra team</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-06-27 12:51:54+00:00</p> <p><p>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, <b>Chris Wells</b>.</p><p><i>Where do you live?</i></p><p>Birch Run, Michigan, USA. I was born in Flint, Michigan, but I have moved …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/strengthening-the-infra-team.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new-and-enhanced-gitbox-platform.html">New and enhanced GitBox platform sees the light of day</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2022-04-04 07:48:50+00:00</p> <p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">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 …</span></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new-and-enhanced-gitbox-platform.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/even-more-github-features-added.html">Even more GitHub features added to .asf.yaml</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-10-21 13:35:19+00:00</p> <p><p>Available as of yesterday, more self serve features were added to the .asf.yaml toolset, based around GitHub Branch Protection.</p> <p>You can now add the following features :-</p><ul><li>GitHub Branch Protection Enable/Disable</li><li>Require Status Checks to pass before merging</li><li>Require Branches to be up to date before merging</li><li>Context Status …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/even-more-github-features-added.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/promoting-podlings.html">Promoting Podlings</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-07-15 13:29:54+00:00</p> <p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/promoting-podlings.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new-notification-scheme-features-for.html">New notification scheme features for git repositories</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-04-19 22:50:14+00:00</p> <p><p>Today, ASF Infra launched new features for projects wishing to update their notification schemes for git/github activity on their own.</p> <p>Via the <a href="https://infra.apache.org/asf-yaml.html" target="_blank">.asf.yaml</a> file, projects can now define notification schemes for their repositories, including targets for commit emails, GitHub events, and Jira notification options.</p> <p>Along with this notification …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new-notification-scheme-features-for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/more-secure-and-robust-downloads.html">More secure and robust downloads</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-03-04 15:43:06+00:00</p> <p><p><i>Infra member Daniel Gruno writes</i>:</p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/more-secure-and-robust-downloads.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/welcome-to-roller-6-0.html">Welcome to Roller 6.0!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-02-25 22:16:59+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Until June, 2023, the ASF supported using Apache Roller for project blogs. That support has ended. Please visit <a href="https://infra.apache.org/project-blogs.html" target="_blank">Project Blog</a> for more information about blogs for projects. <hr/> <p>After some bumpy DNS issues, Roller 6.0 is live!<br/></p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/welcome-to-roller-6-0.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/index.html">index</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-02-02 00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>Date: '2020-02-02'</p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/index.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/another-oar-in-the-water.html">Another oar in the water</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2020-01-05 18:54:30+00:00</p> <p><p> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/another-oar-in-the-water.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/subversion-to-git-service-git.html">Subversion-to-Git service (git.apache.org) post mortem, and the path forward</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2019-09-10 21:36:35+00:00</p> <p><h2>What happened<br/></h2> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/subversion-to-git-service-git.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache-and-github-a-friendly.html">Apache and GitHub - a friendly PSA about awesomeness</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2019-04-30 01:08:58+00:00</p> <p><p> <em>With the <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-expands">news of the Apache Software Foundation teaming up more closely with GitHub</a>, 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.</em><br/><br/> </p> <h2>A little bit of history</h2>The Apache …</p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache-and-github-a-friendly.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/rate-limiting-on-apache-services.html">Rate-limiting on Apache services</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2019-01-27 18:20:54+00:00</p> <p><p>Over the past few days we have implemented rate limiting on selected services across the ASF.</p> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/rate-limiting-on-apache-services.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/roller-updated-to-5-2.html">Roller updated to 5.2.2</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2019-01-10 05:08:48+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Until June, 2023, the ASF supported using Apache Roller for project blogs. That support has ended. Please visit <a href="https://infra.apache.org/project-blogs.html" target="_blank">Project Blog</a> for more information about blogs for projects. <hr/> <p>We've updated blogs.a.o to the latest version of Roller, 5.2.2!!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><br/></p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/roller-updated-to-5-2.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/relocation-of-apache-git-repositories.html">Relocation of Apache git repositories on git-wip-us.apache.org to gitbox.apache.org</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2018-12-07 17:33:33+00:00</p> <p><p>[IF YOUR PROJECT DOES NOT HAVE GIT REPOSITORIES ON GIT-WIP-US PLEASE DISREGARD THIS POST]<br/><br/>Hello Apache projects,<br/><br/>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/relocation-of-apache-git-repositories.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/position-available-infrastructure-systems-administrator.html">Position Available: Infrastructure Systems Administrator</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2018-09-17 07:55:22+00:00</p> <p><h4><strong>UPDATE</strong>:  We have received enough applicants at this time. Thank you all for your interest.  <br/></h4> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/position-available-infrastructure-systems-administrator.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/bringing-gitpubsub-to-the-apache.html">Bringing GitPubSub to the Apache Jenkins build server</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2017-03-26 01:07:08+00:00</p> <p><p> When it comes to <a href="#Jenkins">[Jenkins</a>], it has long been known that [polling must die]. </p> <p>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. <p>In any case, we have [GitPubSub]. </p></p> <p>The question …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/bringing-gitpubsub-to-the-apache.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/blogs-a-o-moved-upgraded.html">blogs.a.o moved, upgraded and improved</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2017-01-01 08:06:46+00:00</p> <p><p>Hi All,</p> <p> <a href="https://blogs.apache.org" title="blogs.apache.org main site">blogs.apache.org</a>   - the site you are reading now! has had a bit of an update.<br/></p> <p> </p> <p>1. We moved it from an aged VM Host to the Cloud (thanks LeaseWeb!)</p> <p>2. We puppetised the entire service, from install to deploy (see our <a href="https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-puppet/tree/deployment/modules/blogs_asf" title="GitHub Mirror of infrastructure-puppet">GitHub</a> Mirror )</p> <p>3. We upgraded the …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/blogs-a-o-moved-upgraded.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/position_available_infrastructure_systems_administrator.html">Position Available: Infrastructure Systems Administrator Architect</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2016-07-25 20:07:36+00:00</p> <p><p><font size="5"><b>UPDATE</b>:  We have received enough applicants at this time. Thank you all for your interest. </font></p> <div> <p>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 …</p></div></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/position_available_infrastructure_systems_administrator.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/continued_outages_for_the_asf.html">ASF JIRA Outages and Troubleshooting</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2016-06-30 16:25:30+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/continued_outages_for_the_asf.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/appveyor_ci_now_available_for.html">AppVeyor CI now available for GitHub Mirrors</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2016-02-12 19:45:06+00:00</p> <p><p><span style="font-stretch: normal;">The ASF Infrastructure team is happy to announce that projects can how have AppVeyor CI setup on their GitHub mirrors.</span></p> <p> The only thing you need to do is create an INFRA ticket at <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA/">issues.apache.org</a> with the following information:</p> <ul> <li>Repo Name</li> <li>Mailing list to send build notifications to (optional …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/appveyor_ci_now_available_for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/dear_apache.html">Dear Apache</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-10-19 18:30:41+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/dear_apache.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_reviewboard.html">Planned downtime for ReviewBoard</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-08-19 19:19:38+00:00</p> <p><div> <div> <div>The ReviewBoard VM ran out of space and despite our best efforts to fix the space issue without restarting the service, that is the only option left.<br/><br/></div>The plan is to restart the VM on Thursday August 20th at 21:00 UTC (14:00 PDT), but if it fills up …</div></div></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_reviewboard.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_jira1.html">Planned downtime for Jira1</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-08-03 23:07:37+00:00</p> <p><p>There will be a planned reboot of Jira on Friday 7th August at 00:00 UTC.<br/><br/>This is 72 hours notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.<br/><br/>Currently, Jira requires a reboot when adding new projects to it. There is an outstanding <br/>ticket with Atlassian about this …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_jira1.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/mirroring_to_github_issues.html">Mirroring to GitHub issues</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-07-14 16:05:02+00:00</p> <p><p>As some of you are aware, there have been some issues syncing changes from repositories on <a href="https://git-wip-us.apache.org">https://git-wip-us.apache.org</a> to the mirrors on GitHub.</p> <p> </p> <p>The issues we are seeing:</p> <ul> <li>Pull requests not being closed when they should be</li> <li>Changes not being synced to the GitHub mirrors</li> <li>Bots other than …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/mirroring_to_github_issues.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/buildbot_master_currently_off_line.html">Buildbot master currently off-line</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-06-29 21:17:45+00:00</p> <p><p><b>Update (2015-06-30 ~12.00 UTC):</b></p> <p>The replacement buildbot master is now live. The CMS service and the <a href="http://ci.apache.org">ci.apache.org</a>  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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/buildbot_master_currently_off_line.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/confluence_wiki_service_to_be.html">Confluence Wiki service to be restarted</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-06-10 08:32:13+00:00</p> <p><p>Hi All,<br/><br/>There will be a planned reboot of Confluence on Friday 12th June at 18:00 UTC+1<br/><br/>This is a blog post notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.<br/><br/>The Confluence wiki service configuration is stored in our Puppet configuration.<br/><br/>We have made some modifications …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/confluence_wiki_service_to_be.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_jira.html">Planned downtime for Jira</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-05-18 15:28:11+00:00</p> <p><p>Hi All,<br/><br/>There will be a planned reboot of Jira on Thursday 21st May at 16:00 UTC+1<br/><br/>This is 72 hours notice as recommended in our Core Services planned downtime SLA.<br/><br/>Currently, Jira requires a reboot when adding new projects to it. There is an outstanding <br/>ticket with …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/planned_downtime_for_jira.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/mail_service_architecture_changes.html">Mail Service Architecture Changes</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-05-08 21:12:11+00:00</p> <p><p>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.</p> <p>Phase 1 covers all …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/mail_service_architecture_changes.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_services_and_sha_1.html">Apache Services and SHA-1 SSL Cert deprecation</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-04-29 23:02:29+00:00</p> <p><p> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_services_and_sha_1.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/git_based_websites_available.html">Git based websites available</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-04-29 21:29:31+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/git_based_websites_available.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_gains_additional_travis_ci.html">Apache gains additional Travis-CI capacity</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-04-15 20:32:10+00:00</p> <p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://travis-ci.org" target="_blank">Travis-CI</a> is a distributed continuous integration platform that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">integrates well with projects on GitHub. As many of our projects are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">taking advantage of our <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/improved_integration_between_apache_and" target="_blank">GitHub integration</a>, they're also making use of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Travis-CI for testing of inbound patches.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Travis CI offers a free account for open source projects, with a built …</span></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_gains_additional_travis_ci.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/introducing_jira_service_desk.html">Introducing JIRA Service Desk</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-04-13 20:21:14+00:00</p> <p><hr/> Infra no longer offers the Jira Service Desk. You can manage most standard service requests yourself through the <a href="https://selfserve.apache.org/" target="_blank">Self-Serve service</a>. <hr/> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/introducing_jira_service_desk.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/towards_a_redeployable_future_or.html">Towards a redeployable future, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love setting the execute bit on CGI files</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-02-27 13:08:05+00:00</p> <p><p>Things change, even within the ASF.</p> <p>One of these changes is to our infrastructure, and is a move from manually managed and maintained web servers towards re-deployable, configuration managed servers that tend to themselves and rarely, if ever, require manual intervention. As such, we have started moving towards no longer …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/towards_a_redeployable_future_or.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/downtime_notice_for_the_r.html">Downtime notice for the RW git repositories</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2015-01-12 15:02:12+00:00</p> <p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Folks,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Please note than on Thursday 15th at 20:00 UTC the Infrastructure team</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will be taking the read/write git repositories offline.  We expect</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that this migration to last about 4 hours.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">During the outage the service will be migrated from an old host to a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"/><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">new one.   We …</span></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/downtime_notice_for_the_r.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/svn_service_outage_postmortem.html">SVN Service Outage - PostMortem</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-12-09 09:58:37+00:00</p> <p><p> <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-family: Arial; font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"><strong>Summary</strong></span><br/> <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-family: Arial; font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"></span><br/> <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-family: Arial; font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;">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 …</span></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/svn_service_outage_postmortem.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/subversion_master_undergoing_emergency_maintenance.html">Subversion master undergoing emergency maintenance</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-12-03 17:52:32+00:00</p> <p><p> The primary master machine that hosts the Apache Software Foundation's subversion repositories is currently undergoing some emergency maintenance due to disk errors.<br/> We do not currently have an ETA on when this will be fixed.<br/> <br/> In the meantime, there will be no access to commit to SVN.<br/> The read-only mirror …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/subversion_master_undergoing_emergency_maintenance.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/moinmoin_service_user_account_tidy.html">MoinMoin Service - User Account Tidy Up</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-11-21 12:17:17+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: We no longer use the MoinMoin service. Projects can create a wiki in the <a href="https://infra.apache.org/cwiki.html" target="_blank">ASF Confluence Wiki</a>. <hr/> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/moinmoin_service_user_account_tidy.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/code_signing_service_now_available.html">Code signing service now available</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-10-06 16:36:09+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/code_signing_service_now_available.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/github_pull_request_builds_now.html">GitHub pull request builds now available on builds.apache.org</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-10-02 13:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch: normal;">The ASF Infrastructure team is happy to announce that you can now set up jobs on <a href="https://builds.apache.org">builds.apache.org</a> to listen for pull requests to <a href="https://github.com/apache">github.com/apache</a> repositories, build that pull request’s changes, and then comment on the pull request with the build’s results. This is done …</span></font></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/github_pull_request_builds_now.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/committer_shell_access_to_people.html">Committer shell access to people.apache.org</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-09-25 23:38:41+00:00</p> <p><p>Apache committers are granted shell access to a host known 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.</p> <p>Due to a significant recent …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/committer_shell_access_to_people.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/committers_mail_relay_service.html">Committers mail relay service</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-09-25 22:57:44+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/committers_mail_relay_service.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/nexus_reduced_performance_issues_resolved.html">Nexus reduced performance issues resolved</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-09-11 09:19:46+00:00</p> <p><p>    HI All,<br/><br/>So Tuesday morning we got a report in IRC that a committer was trying to get a release out <br/>and could not deploy. Shortly after a Nexus issue was reported in Jira INFRA-8321. A few <br/>hours later another issue INFRA-8322 related to Nexus was opened. So far, nothing …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/nexus_reduced_performance_issues_resolved.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/on_demand_workers_from_rackspace.html">On-demand workers from Rackspace added to builds.apache.org</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-09-04 13:00:00+00:00</p> <p><div>A couple of weeks ago, Apache's Infrastructure team added a new feature to our Jenkins server, <a href="http://builds.apache.org">builds.apache.org</a> to help deal with the at times overwhelming queues of builds waiting for an executor. While this has been improved dramatically by the increase in workers generously provided by Yahoo! on …</div></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/on_demand_workers_from_rackspace.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/infrastructure_team_adopting_an_on.html">Infrastructure Team Adopting an On-Call Rotation</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-08-18 13:00:00+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/infrastructure_team_adopting_an_on.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_status_page_for_the.html">New status page for the ASF</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-08-14 13:45:53+00:00</p> <p><p>We are pleased to announce that we have a new status page for our infrastructure and the ASF as a whole.</p> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_status_page_for_the.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/email_from_apache_org_committer.html">Email from apache.org committer accounts bypasses moderation!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-06-15 02:29:06+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/email_from_apache_org_committer.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/dmarc_filtering_on_lists_that.html">DMARC filtering on lists that munge messages</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-06-03 21:57:08+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: The solution described below has been incorporated into ezmlm. However, it creates a new problem, generating double 'Reply-To:' headers in the case of lists with a `reply-to` set to something other than the list name. A complete rewrite of this function is under consideration. 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This outage affected …</span></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/mail_outage_post_mortem.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_monitoring_system_nagios_is.html">New monitoring system: nagios is dead long live circonus</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-05-23 22:29:12+00:00</p> <p><p>23 may 2014 the old monitoring system "nagios" was put to sleep, and "circonus" was given production status.</p> <p>The new monitoring system is sponsored by circonus and most of the monitoring as well as the central database runs on <a href="www.circonus.com" target="_blank">www.circonus.com</a>. The infrastructure team have built and deployed logic …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_monitoring_system_nagios_is.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/mail_outage.html">Mail outage</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-05-07 14:48:16+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/mail_outage.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/heartbleed_fallout_for_apache.html">heartbleed fallout for apache</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-04-11 20:25:44+00:00</p> <p><p>Remain calm.</p> <p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/heartbleed_fallout_for_apache.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/scaling_down_the_cms_to.html">Scaling down the CMS to modest but intricate websites</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-03-25 18:23:50+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Projects and the ASF itself used the Apache Content Management System from 2010 to 2021. It is no longer available. <p>Links to suggestions for setting up a project website, and website guidelines, are available under "PMC resources" in the general <a href="https://infra.apache.org/doc.html" target="_blank">Infrastructure documentation page</a>.</p> <hr/> <p>The original focus of the CMS …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/scaling_down_the_cms_to.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/improved_integration_between_apache_and.html">Improved integration between Apache and GitHub</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2014-02-12 01:16:30+00:00</p> <p><p>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.</p> <p>These new features mean a much higher level of replication and retention of what goes on on GitHub, which in turns both help …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/improved_integration_between_apache_and.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/paste_apache_org_sees_the.html">paste.apache.org sees the light of day</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2013-03-06 18:37:42+00:00</p> <p><p><em>Note</em>: As of May, 2024, Apache Paste is no longer available.</p> <hr/> <p>Today, the Apache Infrastructure team launched <a href="http://paste.apache.org">http://paste.apache.org</a>, a new ASF-driven site for posting snippets, scripts, logging output, configurations and much more and sharing them with the world. </p> <p><br/><b><i> Why yet another paste bin, you ask?</i></b></p> <p>Well, for …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/paste_apache_org_sees_the.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_infra_team_members.html">New Infra Team Members</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-07-26 02:35:47+00:00</p> <p><p> <p>Since out last update over a year ago, the Infra Team has expanded by another NINE (9) members!</p></p> <p>Congrats and our warmest thanks go to:</p> <p><br/>Niklas Gustavsson - (ngn)<br/>Jeremy Thomerson - (jrthomerson)<br/>Mark Struberg - (struberg)<br/>Eric Evans - (eevans)<br/>Brandon Williams - (brandonwilliams)<br/>Mohammad Nour El-Din - (mnour)<br/>David Nalley - (ke4qqq)<br/>Yang Shih-Ching - (imacat …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_infra_team_members.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/asf_comments_system_live.html">ASF Comments System Live!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-07-09 16:49:30+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: This service is no longer available from Infra. <hr/> <p>Daniel Gruno has recently developed a <a href="https://comments.apache.org/">comments system</a> 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 <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/">httpd</a> and <a href="http://trafficserver.apache.org/docs/">trafficserver</a> projects.  This new system …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/asf_comments_system_live.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_cms_new_features_for.html">Apache CMS: New features for anonymous users</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-06-24 13:37:50+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Projects and the ASF itself used the Apache Content Management System from 2010 to 2021. It is no longer available. <p>Links to suggestions for setting up a project website, and website guidelines, are available under "PMC resources" in the general <a href="https://infra.apache.org/doc.html" target="_blank">Infrastructure documentation page</a>.</p> <hr/> <p>Two new features have recently been …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_cms_new_features_for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/the_value_of_taint_checks.html">The value of taint checks in CGI scripts</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-06-09 21:45:27+00:00</p> <p><p>Consider the following snippet taken from a live CGI script running on the host that serves www.apache.org:</p> <pre>#!/usr/bin/perl <p>use strict; use warnings;</p> <p>print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; my $artifact = "/apache-tomee/1.0.1-SNAPSHOT/"; $artifact = $ENV{PATH_INFO} if $ENV{PATH_INFO};</p> <p>$artifact = "/$artifact/"; $artifact =~ s,/+,/,g; $artifact …</p></pre></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/the_value_of_taint_checks.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_org_incident_report_for.html">apache.org incident report for 05292012</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-05-29 16:59:09+00:00</p> <p><p>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.<br/></p> <h3> </h3> <h3>The problem</h3> <p>The httpd logs of several ASF services are aggregated and archived on minotaur.apache.org.  Minotaur is also people.apache.org, the shell …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_org_incident_report_for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_cms_and_external_build.html">Apache CMS and external build support</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-03-10 17:28:05+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Projects and the ASF itself used the Apache Content Management System from 2010 to 2021. It is no longer available. <p>Links to suggestions for setting up a project website, and website guidelines, are available under "PMC resources" in the general <a href="https://infra.apache.org/doc.html" target="_blank">Infrastructure documentation page</a>.</p> <hr/> <p>Recently we've been working with the …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_cms_and_external_build.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_cms_latest_new_feature.html">Apache CMS: latest new feature is SPEED!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2012-02-26 02:23:56+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Projects and the ASF itself used the Apache Content Management System from 2010 to 2021. It is no longer available. <p>Links to suggestions for setting up a project website, and website guidelines, are available under "PMC resources" in the general <a href="https://infra.apache.org/doc.html" target="_blank">Infrastructure documentation page</a>.</p> <hr/> <p>Over the past few months the …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_cms_latest_new_feature.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/translate_service_now_open.html">translate service now open!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-12-11 20:30:33+00:00</p> <p><p> <p>A few projects have requested it, now it is here! Check out <a href="https://translate.apache.org"><a href="https://translate.apache.org">https://translate.apache.org</a></a> and get your project added.</p></p> <p>See also <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/translate+pootle+service+auth+levels">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/translate+pootle+service+auth+levels</a> for more information - you will see that general public non-logged in users can submit translate …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/translate_service_now_open.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/pear_package_hosting_available1.html">PEAR package hosting available</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-04-15 05:32:23+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Hosting releases of PEAR packages is no longer available. <hr/> <p> <p>Any projects in the position of being able to release via PEAR packages can now do so hosted officially on ASF servers.</p></p> <p><a href="http://pear.apache.org">http://pear.apache.org</a> is now up and running and ready to serve!</p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/pear_package_hosting_available1.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/welcome_new_members_of_the.html">Welcome new members of the infra team</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-03-22 10:09:45+00:00</p> <p><p> 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: </p> <ul> <li>Chris Rhodes: (arreyder) </li> <li>Brian Fox: (brianf) </li> <li>Matt Benson: (mbenson) </li> <li>David Blevins: (dblevins) </li> <li>Rudiger …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/welcome_new_members_of_the.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/changes_to_email_service_for.html">Changes to email service for all committers</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-02-24 21:13:18+00:00</p> <p><p>In the near future the Infrastructure team will be implementing a change to the way we handle emails for all committers. </p> <p> Historically we have allowed users to choose how to handle their apache.org email. However we will be making the following changes: <ol> <li>Making LDAP authoritative for all mail forwarding …</li></ol></p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/changes_to_email_service_for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/controlling_your_spamassassin_threshold1.html">Controlling your SpamAssassin threshold</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-01-27 15:37:21+00:00</p> <p><p>Committers,</p> <p> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/controlling_your_spamassassin_threshold1.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/https_id_apache_org_new.html">id.apache.org -- New Password Service</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2011-01-14 16:36:42+00:00</p> <p><p>Folks, <br/> <br/></p> <p>The infrastructure team are pleased to announce the availability of <a href="https://id.apache.org">id.apache.org</a> the new password management tool for all ASF committers and members. This new service will allow users to:</p> <ol> <li>Reset forgotten LDAP passwords themselves, no need to contact the Infra team anymore.</li> <li>The ability to change their …</li></ol></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/https_id_apache_org_new.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/ldap_and_password_policy.html">LDAP and password policy</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-12-17 06:38:50+00:00</p> <p><p>As of approximately 03:00 (UTC) today the infrastructure team have enabled a password policy for all LDAP accounts.<br/> 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.</p> <p>At the time of launch …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/ldap_and_password_policy.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/the_asf_cms.html">The ASF CMS</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-12-02 04:25:43+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Projects and the ASF itself used the Apache Content Management System from 2010 to 2021. It is no longer available. <p>Links to suggestions for setting up a project website, and website guidelines, are available under "PMC resources" in the <a href="https://infra.apache.org/doc.html" target="_blank">general Infrastructure documentation page</a>.</p> <hr/> <p> Over the past 3 months, the …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/the_asf_cms.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/reviewboard_instance_running_at_the.html">ReviewBoard instance running at the ASF</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-10-26 03:25:49+00:00</p> <p><p>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.</p> <p>Well, due to popular request, we now have an internal ReviewBoard running on <a href="https://reviews.apache.org">https://reviews.apache.org</a> !!</p> <p>So, sign …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/reviewboard_instance_running_at_the.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/1_million_commits_and_still.html">1 million commits and still going strong</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-09-23 11:55:55+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/1_million_commits_and_still.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_hardware_for_apache_org.html">new hardware for apache.org</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-07-19 04:01:07+00:00</p> <p><p>This weekend we rolled out a new server, a Dell Power Edge R410, named Eos, to host the Apache.org websites and MoinMoin wiki:</p> <ul> <li>OS: FreeBSD 8.1-RC2</li> <li>CPU: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz (2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads = 16 …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_hardware_for_apache_org.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/s_apache_org_uri_shortening.html">s.apache.org - uri shortening service</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-06-11 17:17:46+00:00</p> <p><p> Today we've brought <a href="http://s.apache.org/">s.apache.org</a> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/s_apache_org_uri_shortening.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_org_04_09_2010.html">apache.org incident report for 04092010</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-04-13 05:04:50+00:00</p> <p><p>Apache.org services recently suffered a direct, targeted attack against our infrastructure, specifically the server hosting our issue-tracking software.</p> <p>The Apache Software Foundation uses a donated instance of <a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/">Atlassian JIRA</a> as an issue tracker for our projects. Among other projects, the ASF Infrastructure Team uses it to track issues and …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_org_04_09_2010.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/asf_buildbot_svn_setup.html">ASF Buildbot svn setup</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-03-29 10:25:59+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/asf_buildbot_svn_setup.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_servers_for_asf_builbot.html">New secondary servers for ASF Buildbot</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-03-04 22:03:23+00:00</p> <p><p>The ASF Buildbot CI instance has just launched two more secondary servers, expanding the range of platforms it can build and test on.</p> <p>Added are servers on the FreeBSD 8 platform (a VM on the Nyx VMware host) and a Solaris Zone.</p> <p>Projects are welcome to create an Infra issue …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_servers_for_asf_builbot.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/the_asf_ldap_system.html">The ASF LDAP system</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-02-22 22:17:39+00:00</p> <p><p>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: </p><p> dc=apache,dc=org<br/>      |   ou=people,dc=apache,dc=org <br/>      |   ou=groups,dc=apache,dc=org<br/>           |   ou=people,ou=groups …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/the_asf_ldap_system.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/ldap_svn_coupled_together.html">LDAP, groups and SVN - Coupled together</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-02-22 22:03:20+00:00</p> <p><p>The infrastructure team have now completed the next stage of the planned LDAP migration.<br/>We have migrated our old SVN authorisation file, and POSIX groups into LDAP data.  SVN access control is now managed using these groups.</p><p>This means to change access the Subversion repositories is now as simple as …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/ldap_svn_coupled_together.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/svn_performance_enhancements.html">SVN performance enhancements</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2010-02-17 00:41:04+00:00</p> <p><p>Tonight we enabled a pair of Intel X25-M's to serve as <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test">l2arc cache</a> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/svn_performance_enhancements.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/what_can_the_asf_buildbot.html">What can the ASF Buildbot do for your project?</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-11-09 13:01:12+00:00</p> <p><p>The below information has just been published to the main  ASF Buildbot URI <a href="http://ci.apache.org/buildbot.html" title="ASF Buildbot">ci.apache.org/buildbot.html</a>.</p><p>A summary of just some of the things the ASF Buildbot can do for your project: </p><ul><li>Perform per commit build & test runs for your project</li><li>Not just svn! - Buildbot can pull in …</li></ul></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/what_can_the_asf_buildbot.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/ddos_mystery_involving_linux_and.html">DDOS mystery involving Linux and mod_ssl</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-10-12 01:53:03+00:00</p> <p><p>In the first week of October we started getting reports of performance issues, mainly connection timeouts, on all of our services hosted at <a href="https://issues.apache.org" title="https://issues.apache.org/">https://issues.apache.org/</a>.  On further inspection we noticed a huge amount of "Browser disconnect" errors in the error log right at the beginning of the ssl …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/ddos_mystery_involving_linux_and.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_org_downtime_report.html">apache.org incident report for 8282009</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-09-02 08:56:09+00:00</p> <p><p>Last week we <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_initial_report">posted about the security breach</a> 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.<br/></p> <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: At no time were any Apache …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_org_downtime_report.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/apache_org_downtime_initial_report.html">apache.org downtime - initial report</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-08-28 12:33:19+00:00</p> <p><p>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.</p><p> On August 27th, starting at about 18:00 UTC an account used for …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/apache_org_downtime_initial_report.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/relaying_mail_from_apache_org.html">Relaying mail from apache.org.</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-08-01 12:24:57+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/relaying_mail_from_apache_org.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/public_preview_of_drafts_feature.html">Public Preview of Drafts feature added to ASF Roller instance</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-07-15 06:59:48+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Until June, 2023, the ASF supported using Apache Roller for project blogs. That support has ended. Please visit <a href="https://infra.apache.org/project-blogs.html" target="_blank">Project Blog</a> for more information about blogs for projects. <hr/> <p>Previously, to be able to preview a draft post by any Roller Blog, one had to be a member user of that …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/public_preview_of_drafts_feature.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/confluence_2_10_migration_for.html">Confluence 2.10 migration for cwiki.a.o 11 July1</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-07-07 07:04:25+00:00</p> <p><p> The ASF Infrastructure Team will be upgrading the Confluence instance powering <a href="http://cwiki.apache.org">http://cwiki.apache.org</a> from Confluence 2.2.9 to <a href="http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence%202.10%20Release%20Notes">Confluence 2.10.3</a> on July 11 at 0400 UTC, or July 10 at 2100 PST.  The migration is expected to take several hours.  <br/><br/>If you haven't already, this …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/confluence_2_10_migration_for.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/it_s_official_we_now.html">It's official, we now have LDAP running!</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-05-21 16:01:19+00:00</p> <p><p>Earlier this week the Infrastructure team rolled out phase one of the planned LDAP services.  </p><p>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. </p><p>The next phase will involve moving to LDAP …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/it_s_official_we_now.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/git_at_apache.html">Git support at Apache</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-05-03 22:22:57+00:00</p> <p><p><a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> 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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/git_at_apache.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_mailing_list_for_ci.html">New mailing list for CI Build Services</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-04-06 09:14:11+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_mailing_list_for_ci.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/improving_our_subversion_services.html">Improving our Subversion Services</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-04-02 20:47:41+00:00</p> <p><p>This week the ASF Infrastructure Team deployed one of the first major changes to how <a href="http://svn.apache.org/">svn.apache.org</a> works since it was launched, <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1">6 years ago</a>.<br/></p><p><a href="http://geo.bitnames.com/"></a>We now distribute Subversion traffic to our servers based on the geographic region of a client.</p><p>We are using <a href="http://geo.bitnames.com/">pgeodns</a>, the same software that …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/improving_our_subversion_services.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/subversion_on_the_fly_replication.html">Subversion on-the-fly Replication Talk</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-04-02 17:47:53+00:00</p> <p><p>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 …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/subversion_on_the_fly_replication.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/ldap_it_s_getting_closer.html">LDAP - It's getting closer</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-03-26 16:56:58+00:00</p> <p><p>As of this afternoon whilst at <a href="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', times, serif">ApacheCon Europe 2009</font></a>, we have gotten our initial LDAP platform in place ready for testing.  This will allow us to move to a centralized AAA system. </p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/ldap_it_s_getting_closer.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/slow_svn_service_this_week.html">Slow SVN Service This Week</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-03-25 18:39:01+00:00</p> <p><p>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.<br/> </p> </p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/slow_svn_service_this_week.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/new_faces_in_infrastructure.html">New faces in Infrastructure</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-03-25 02:28:20+00:00</p> <p><p>Over the past year the Infrastructure Team has grown to meet new challenges.  Here is a list of the new folks on the team:</p><ul><li>Gavin McDonald (gmcdonald)</li><li>Norman Maurer (norman)</li><li>Tony Stevenson (pctony)</li><li>Wendy Smoak (wsmoak)</li><li>Mark Thomas (markt)</li><li>Chris J. Davis (chrisjdavis)</li><li>Jukka Zitting (jukka)</li></ul><p>Congratulate these people on …</p></p> <footer> <ul class="actions"> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="/blog/new_faces_in_infrastructure.html" class="button medium">Continue Reading</a></div> </ul> <ul class="stats"> </ul> </footer> </article> </div> </div>  <div class="row"> <div class="callout"> <article class="post"> <header> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="/blog/roller_installed_for_use_by.html">Roller installed for use by Apache Projects</a></h2> <p>Posted on: 2009-03-23 00:29:41+00:00</p> <p><hr/> **Note**: Until June, 2023, the ASF supported using Apache Roller for project blogs. That support has ended. Please visit <a href="https://infra.apache.org/project-blogs.html" target="_blank">Project Blog</a> for more information about blogs for projects. <hr/> <p>Roller was installed today for the use of ASF Projects. 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