by Etienne Chauchot I have been working in software engineering for more than 15 years. I’ve always contributed to Open Source software as a user or a developer. But I’ve been contributing to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam or Apache Spark for nearly 6 years. It is long enough […]

by Mark Shan, Chairman of Tencent Open Source Alliance and Tencent Cloud Open Source Ecosystem General Manager The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) manages more than 227 million lines of code, has 206 project management committees, leads more than 350 Apache projects and operates through a merit system, with more than 850 members, 8,100+ committers, and […]

by Ephraim Anierobi This post is about how I became a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Airflow, and provides guidance to those new to programming, are new to contributing to open-source projects, and want to become committers and PMC members in their respective Apache projects. About a year and a […]

by Jarek Potiuk This post is about the Apache Software Foundation’s Security process and security mindset of the Apache Software project’s PMC put to the best use in practice. From this post you can learn why security practices we apply at our projects are important and how they work when they are applied correctly and […]

by Wei Zhou I joined the Apache CloudStack community in 2012 and became a committer in 2013, eventually becoming a PMC (Project Management Committee) member in 2017. My journey to becoming a PMC was both physical and literal, and included several forks in the road. The forks presented themselves in all aspects of my journey […]

Part II of the of the “Inside Infra” interview with Chris Lambertus, the last of the series of interviews with members of the ASF Infrastructure team, who share their experiences with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…you want to limit your exposure… You have to keep that in mind as you move through […]

Part I of the last of the “Inside Infra” interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team features Chris Lambertus, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…The thing that we’re fighting against is the safety and longevity of the old technology. For quite some time, our primary concern […]

The “Inside Infra” series continues with members of the ASF Infrastructure team. Andrew Wetmore shares his experience in Part II of his interview with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “The nice thing is that the Infrastructure team does so much so well and almost making it look easy that any project in Apache […]

The “Inside Infra” series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team continues with Part I of the interview with Andrew Wetmore, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…I really had a distant but benevolent appreciation of Apache until I started to get more and more involved with Royale and […]

The “Inside Infra” series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team continues with Part II of the interview with Gavin McDonald, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…you don’t know you need somebody until somebody like that arrives.“ Earlier you mentioned growth: preparing for growth and being able to […]

The “Inside Infra” series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team continues with Gavin McDonald, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…The Foundation itself has a responsibility to the Projects to ensure that there is solid infrastructure there. So there’s got to be a requirement that there’s people there […]

The “Inside Infra” series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team continues with Part II of the interview with Daniel Gruno, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…it speaks of how tenaciously the Foundation guards its core values, one of which really is provenance, because it’s the Apache seal […]

The fourth interview in the “Inside Infra” series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team. Meet Daniel Gruno, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “…companies are not the same as ASF. They don’t have 300 different departments that all have their own little tools that they want working in […]

by Eric Pugh On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project.  My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that!  On July 2nd, 2007, I opened SOLR-284, a ticket for adding content extraction to Solr.  A committer on an open source project under the Apache Foundation […]

The close of the “Inside Infra” interview with ASF Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity.  “Apache is growing: we’re just seeing the demand explode and it’s a hard problem for us to solve.“ PART THREE. We were talking about ensuring that the team is up […]

The “Inside Infra” interview continues with ASF Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “Who are these crazy guys spread around the world that are keeping 200 machines up and running for all these different projects and committers and contributors?“ PART TWO. How or what would […]

The third “Inside Infra” interview is with ASF Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity. “We’ve got about 200 different machines and each one runs something different“ PART ONE. What is your name –how is it pronounced? Greg Stein. “Gregg St-eye-n” When people need to find […]

by Marvin Humphrey I “arrived” at the Apache Software Foundation in 2005, unreasonably angry about a bug in Apache Lucene.  By “arrived”, I mean that I sent the first few emails among several thousand I would go on to send over the next 15 years — the ASF didn’t have a physical office where I could […]

by Julián Bruno Creating the Apache Beam firefly was the first opportunity I had to contribute my skills as a designer and illustration artist to an open source project. I didn’t know anybody working in open source until I moved to San Francisco from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I knew about open source software for video […]