Debian's Organizational Structure
Occasionally people need to contact someone about a particular aspect of Debian. The following is a list of different jobs and the e-mail addresses to use in order to contact the people responsible for those tasks.
Please be made aware that mails sent to some of these addresses are
publicly archived, especially but not limited to those with the term
lists
in the mail domain part.
In the following list, current
is used for positions that are
transitional (elected or appointed with a certain expiration date).
- Officers
- Distribution
- Communication and Outreach
- Membership in other organizations
- Support and Infrastructure
Officers
- Leader — <leader@debian.org>
current Jonathan Carter - Technical Committee — <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org>
— appointment mail
— appointment mail
— appointment mail
— appointment mail
— appointment mail
current Sean Whitton (chair)
current Simon McVittie
current Christoph Berg
current Helmut Grohne
current Matthew Vernon
current Matthew Garrett - Secretary — <secretary@debian.org> — appointment mail
current Kurt Roeckx
Distribution
- Development Projects — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
- FTP Archives — <ftpmaster@debian.org> — delegation mail
- FTP Masters —
member Thorsten Alteholz (delegate)
member Ansgar (delegate)
member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
member Luke W. Faraone (delegate; they/them)
member Mark Hymers (delegate) - FTP Assistants —
member Bastian Blank
member Luca Falavigna
member Paul Tagliamonte
member Scott Kitterman
member Sean Whitton - FTP Wizards —
member Mike O'Connor
- FTP Masters —
- Backports — <backports-team@debian.org> — delegation mail
- Backports Team —
member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
- Backports Team —
- Release Management —
- Release Team — <debian-release@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (delegate)
member Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
member Julien Cristau (delegate)
member Cyril Brulebois (delegate)
member Ivo De Decker (delegate)
member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
member Graham Inggs (delegate)
member Paul Gevers (delegate)
member Sebastian Ramacher (delegate) - Quality Assurance — <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
- Installation System Team — <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Debian Live Team — <debian-live@lists.debian.org>
- CD/DVD/USB Images —
- Production — <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
member Philip Hands
member Raphaël Hertzog
member Steve McIntyre
member Andy Simpkins
member Mattias Wadenstein
member Andrew Cater
- Production — <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
- Testing — <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
- Release Team — <debian-release@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
- Cloud Team — <debian-cloud@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Thomas Lange (delegate) - Autobuilding infrastructure —
- Wanna-build team — <debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org>
member Andreas Barth
member Aurelien Jarno
member Joachim Breitner
member Kurt Roeckx
member Mehdi Dogguy
member Philipp Kern - Buildd administration — <architecture>@buildd.debian.org
member Andreas Barth
member Aurelien Jarno
member Christoph Egger
member Colin Tuckley
member Dann Frazier
member Frederik Schüler
member Hector Oron
member Konstantinos Margaritis
member Kurt Roeckx
member LaMont Jones
member Michael Banck
member Peter De Schrijver
member Philipp Kern
member Riku Voipio
member Samuel Thibault
- Wanna-build team — <debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org>
- Documentation — <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
member Javier Fernández-Sanguino
member Osamu Aoki
member Josip Rodin - Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list — <debian-wnpp@lists.debian.org>
member Matej Vela
Communication and Outreach
- Data Protection team — <data-protection@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
member Matthew Vernon (delegate) - Publicity team — <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Laura Arjona Reina (delegate)
member Donald Norwood (delegate)
Press Contact — <press@debian.org> - Web Pages — <debian-www@lists.debian.org>
member Rhonda D'Vine
member Kåre Thor Olsen
member Paul Wise
member Laura Arjona Reina
member Carsten Schoenert
member Thomas Lange - Planet Debian — <planet@debian.org>
member Benjamin Mako Hill
member Joerg Jaspert
member Jordi Mallach - Outreach — <outreach@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Molly de Blanc (delegate; they/them)
member Pranav Jain (delegate)
member Jaminy Prabaharan (delegate) - Debian Women Project — <debian-women@lists.debian.org>
member Amaya Rodrigo
member Erinn Clark
member Hanna Wallach
member Helen Faulkner
member Margarita Manterola
member Meike Reichle - Community — <community@debian.org> <antiharassment@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Steve McIntyre (delegate; he/him)
member Luke W. Faraone (delegate; they/them)
member Jean-Philippe MENGUAL (delegate; he/him)
member Molly de Blanc (delegate; they/them)>
member Sruthi Chandran (delegate; she/her)
member Andrew Cater (delegate; he/him)
To send a private message to all the members of the Community Team, use the GPG key 817DAE61E2FE4CA28E1B7762A89C4D0527C4C869. - Events — <events@debian.org>
member Alexander Wirt
member Franziska Lichtblau
member Geert Stappers
member Luca Capello
member Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana - DebConf Committee — <debconf-committee@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Daniel Lange (delegate)
member Stefano Rivera (delegate)
member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
member Bernelle Verster (delegate) - Partner Program — <partners@debian.org>
member Andre Felipe Machado
member Laura Arjona Reina - Hardware Donations Coordination — <hardware-donations@debian.org>
member Bernd Zeimetz
member Martin Zobel-Helas
member Benjamin Mako Hill
member Rob Bradford
Membership in other organizations
Debian is a member of the following organizations, either directly or through SPI.
- GNOME Foundation —
representative Matthew Garrett - Linux Professional Institute —
- Linux Magazine —
role Advisory Council - Linux Standards Base —
- Free Standards Group —
- OASIS: Organization
for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards —
representative Mark Johnson - OVAL: Open Vulnerability
Assessment Language —
representative Javier Fernández-Sanguino - Open Source Initiative —
Support and Infrastructure
- Bug Tracking System — <owner@bugs.debian.org>
member Don Armstrong
member Blars Blarson
member Josip Rodin
member Colin Watson - Mailing Lists Administration and Mailing List Archives — <listmaster@lists.debian.org>
member Alexander Wirt
member Cord Beermann
member David Moreno Garza
member Don Armstrong
member Martin Zobel-Helas
member Pascal Hakim
member Hanno Wagner - New Members Front Desk — <nm@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
member Mattia Rizzolo (delegate)
member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
member Tobias Frost (delegate)
member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (delegate)
member Sam Hartman (delegate)
member Stuart Prescott (delegate)
member Nicolas Dandrimont (delegate) - Debian Account Managers — <da-manager@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Enrico Zini (delegate)
member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
member Nicolas Dandrimont (delegate)
member Stuart Prescott (delegate)
To send a private message to all DAMs, use the GPG key 57731224A9762EA155AB2A530CA8D15BB24D96F2. - Keyring Maintainers (PGP and GPG) — <keyring-maint@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
member John Sullivan (delegate)
member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him) - Security Team — <team@security.debian.org>
member Alberto Garcia
member Alessandro Ghedini
member Aron Xu
member Florian Weimer
member Markus Koschany
member Moritz Muehlenhoff
member Raphael Geissert
member Salvatore Bonaccorso
member Sebastien Delafond
member Thijs Kinkhorst
member Yves-Alexis Perez - Policy — <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
member Russ Allbery (delegate)
member Sean Whitton (delegate) - System Administration — <debian-admin@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
This is the address to use when encountering problems on one of Debian's machines, including password problems or you need a package installed.
member Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
member Aurelien Jarno (delegate)
member Héctor Orón Martínez (delegate)
member Julien Cristau (delegate)
member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
member Paul Wise (delegate)
member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (delegate)
member Peter Palfrader (delegate)
member Tollef Fog Heen (delegate)
If you have hardware problems with Debian machines, please see Debian Machines page, it should contain per-machine administrator information. - LDAP Developer Directory Administrator — <admin@db.debian.org>
- Mirrors — <mirrors@debian.org>
member Peter Palfrader
member Julien Cristau - DNS Maintainer — <hostmaster@debian.org>
- Package Tracking System — <owner@packages.qa.debian.org>
member Raphaël Hertzog - Treasurer — <treasurer@debian.org> — delegation mail — appointment mail
member Brian Gupta (delegate)
member Philipp Hug (delegate)
member Hector Oron (delegate)
member Daniel Lange (delegate) - Trademark use requests — <trademark@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Brian Gupta (delegate; he/him)
member Taowa (delegate; they/them) - Salsa administrators — <salsa-admin@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Alexander Wirt
member Joerg Jaspert
This list can become outdated since it isn't updated automatically after things change. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please send us corrections.
The complete list of official Debian members can be found on the nm.debian.org site.