The Apache Software Foundation
Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership.

posted by ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski:

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is excited to welcome Facebook as the newest addition to our roster of sponsors. 

Sponsoring the ASF helps us grow existing projects, incubate new initiatives, promote community development, host user events, expand our outreach, and provide the infrastructure that keeps the Foundation running on a day-to-day basis. We are grateful for the generous support of Facebook as Gold Sponsors.

With Open Source in its DNA, Facebook is an enthusiastic champion and active contributor to the ASF, including the Hive subproject of Apache Hadoop, as well as the popular incubating projects Thrift and Cassandra – all originally developed at Facebook.

Facebook joins ASF Platinum Sponsors Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!; Gold Sponsor Hewlett-Packard; Silver Sponsors Progress Software and Springsource/VMWare; and Bronze Sponsors BlueNog, Intuit, Joost, and Matt Mullenweg.

The following notice has been sent by Daryl C.W. O'Shea, VP of Apache SpamAssassin --

I've posted the following note on the Apache SpamAssassin website [1] about an issue with a rule that may cause wanted email to be classified as spam by SpamAssassin.  If you're running SpamAssassin 3.2.x you are encouraged to update you rules (updates were released on sa-update around 1900 UTC Jan 1, 2010).

Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now!

2010-01-01:

Versions of the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX [2] rule released with versions of Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 thru 3.2.5 will trigger on most mail with a Date header that includes the year 2010 or later.  The rule will add a score of up to 3.6 towards the spam classification of all email.  You should take corrective action immediately; there are two easy ways to correct the problem:

1) If your system is configured to use sa-update [3] run sa-update now. An update is available that will correct the rule.  No further action is necessary (other than restarting spamd or any service that uses SpamAssassin directly).

2) Add "score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0" without the quotes to the end of your local.cf file to disable the rule.  If you require help updating your rules to correct this issue you are encouraged to ask for assistance on the Apache SpamAssassin Users' list.  Users' mailing list info is here. [4] 

On behalf of the Apache SpamAssassin project I apologize for this error and the grief it may have caused you.


[1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/
[2] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
[3] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates
[4] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

A number of websites have "apache" in their domain name, and sometimes pretend to be official sources of information about projects of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). How do you find out if it's the case?

The rule is very simple: if a website is not hosted on an apache.org domain, it's not a website of the ASF (with a few exceptions, see below).

In other words, if the site's address doesn't end with .apache.org, it's not ours. Note the dot before apache.org: fooapache.org or apachefoo.org wouldn't belong to us, whereas foo.apache.org does.

The only exceptions to that rule are apachecon.com, which is jointly managed between
the ASF and companies producing our conferences, and spamassassin.org and myfaces.org, for historical reasons.

So remember: if it's not at apache.org or one of the three above domains, it's not from us!

The Apache Asia Roadshow in Bejing, China is over; thanks to all who participated in this successful gathering.

Now onto Colombo, Sri Lanka. We hope to see you there!

Thanks to our very own Sally Khudairi, VP Marketing and Publicity, the ASF's 10 years shout out was recently displayed on New York's Times Square and in Las Vegas - and we have visual evidence!