Thanks for the feedback folks. I’ll be making this happen today. I still have a 
number of outstanding PRs on the projects mcp, so I’ll wait on that, but will 
go ahead and move the ponymail-mcp project over.

—Rich

> On Apr 21, 2026, at 10:50 AM, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks.
> 
> I’ve recently published two MCP servers to Github.
> 
> https://github.com/rbowen/ponymail-mcp is a MCP server that lets one query 
> public lists hosted at lists.apache.org <http://lists.apache.org/>. (It also 
> has an OAuth thingy that lets you see private lists you have access to, but 
> it’s super clunky, and I’m sure it can be improved.)
> 
> https://github.com/rbowen/apache-projects-mcp is a little more complicated, 
> and lets you query public data sources (projects.apache.org 
> <http://projects.apache.org/>, whimsy) of data about Apache projects. There’s 
> also several PRs open from Justin that adds Incubator metrics.
> 
> Oh, and I also published this - 
> https://github.com/rbowen/apache-httpd-docs-mcp - which lets you query Apache 
> httpd docs, which is probably not terribly useful except as inspiration for 
> “hey, I could do that for my project too!” type thinking.
> 
> Anyways, I wondered what you all think about relocating those under the new 
> https://github.com/apache/comdev repo, possibly under a new mcp-servers 
> top-level directory, so that other folks can tinker at will with them and we 
> can encourage projects to use them.
> 
> FWIW, I ran these by Infra, and they approved of me publishing them, so we’re 
> not creating a situation where Infra will be angry when we use them.
> 
> —Rich, and his AI overlords.
> 
> — 
> Rich Bowen
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> 

— 
Rich Bowen
[email protected]





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