I’ve opened https://github.com/apache/comdev/pull/2 which brings the 
ponymail-mcp into the comdev repo. Please give it a try - if you do AI stuff. 
Thanks!

> On Apr 24, 2026, at 8:37 AM, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
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>> Rich Bowen
>> [email protected]
>> 
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