
            <h3 style="text-align:center">Welcome to the website of Infra, the Apache Infrastructure Team!</h3>
            <p style="text-align:center"><i>Serving the technical needs of The Apache Software Foundation and its projects</i></p>
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                            <p class="card-text"><b>February 3, 2026</b>: Apache Maven 3.9.12 has a change that causes a problem in repository.apache.org (the Sonatype Nexus 2 Pro staging suite): if your build uses parallel PUT deployment, the build creates a separate staging repository for each of the requests instead of assembling everything in one repository. The Maven team is working on a resolution to this issue. Until the fix is available, they suggest <b></b>disabling parallel PUTs</b>. Learn more at <a href="https://infra.apache.org/blog/parallelputissue.html">Parallel PUT problem in repository.apache.org with Apache Maven 3.9.12]</a>.</p>
                            <p class="card-text"><b>December 30, 2025</b>: Starting November 10, 2025, The ASF experienced a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. The Infra team had to create a suite of tools to augment the existing blocking processes and to improving analysis of attacks on ASF machines. Infra is taking further steps to make sure ASF services and systems remain both secure and available to those who need them.</p>      
                            <p class="card-text"><b>June 23, 2025</b>: Due to a significant increase in abuse, largely driven by AI scraping, the <b>ASF Bugzilla</b> instance is now only available to <b>authenticated users</b>. To use it, log in with your ASF credentials.</p>
                            <p class="card-text"><b>May 16, 2025</b>: Infra has established a policy covering retention/removal of inactive Jira accounts: <a href="https://infra.apache.org/jira-account-retention-policy.html" target="_blank">Jira account retention policy</a>.</p>
                            <p class="card-text"><b>May 15, 2025</b>: In a response to the massive increase in abusive requests that caused our Subversion ViewVC service to buckle under the pressure, we have implemented authorization checks for ViewVC. In essence, this means ViewVC is now only accessible to ASF committers. We understand that this will cause frustration for some project participants, and we took this step because, at the moment, no other option is available.</p>
                            <p class="card-text"><b>May 15, 2025</b>: A new policy related to use of ASF Slack clarifies limitations for projects of the use of private Slack channels and private direct-message groups. See <a href="https://infra.apache.org/slack-policy.html" target="_blank">Policy for using ASF Slack</a></p>
                                
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                                Use our self-serve features to perform tasks ranging from requesting a Jira account to creating a mailing list, without having to involve the Infra team.
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                                Infra holds Roundtable meetings most months to discuss infrastructure development and challenges. Participants are welcome to bring their own concerns, questions, and suggestions.</p>
                        <p>The next Infra roundtable will be on the #roundtable Slack channel on <b>Wednesday, February 11,2026, 1800 UTC</b> (moving one week because the first week of February has a lot going on). Jarek Potiuk will be presenting on the <b>software dependency tracker</b> he developed, and on using <b>AI in code development</b>.</p>
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                                Here is the suggestion box for future ASF infrastructure services, as well as for enhancements to existing services.</p>
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