Introduction to Debian / Debian's Organizational Structure

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.

• Officers
• Distribution
• Communication and Outreach
  • Data Protection team
  • Publicity team
• Support and Infrastructure
• Membership in other organizations

Officers

• Leader — <[email protected]>
       current Sruthi Chandran
• Technical Committee — <[email protected]> — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail
       current Timo Röhling (chair)
       current Matthew Vernon
       current Helmut Grohne
       current Matthew Garrett
       current Stefano Rivera
       current Craig Small
       current Paul Tagliamonte
       current David Prévot
• Secretary — <[email protected]> — appointment mail
       current Kurt Roeckx

Distribution

• Development Projects — <[email protected]>
• Archive operations — — delegation mail
       member Thorsten Alteholz (delegate)
       member Ansgar Burchardt (delegate)
       member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
       member Luke W. Faraone (delegate)
• DFSG, Licensing & New Packages — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Andrew McMillan (delegate)
       member Emmanuel Arias (delegate)
       member Nicolas Mora (delegate)
       member Mechtilde Stehmann (delegate)
       member Reinhard Tartler (delegate)
• Backports — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
  • Backports Team —
         member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
         member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
         member Micha Lenk (delegate)
• Release Management —
  • Release Team — <[email protected]> — 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 — <[email protected]>
  • Installation System Team — <[email protected]>
  • Debian Live Team — <[email protected]>
  • CD/DVD/USB Images —
    • Production — <[email protected]>
           member Philip Hands
           member Raphaël Hertzog
           member Steve McIntyre
           member Andy Simpkins
           member Mattias Wadenstein
           member Andrew Cater
• Build Administration — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Aurélien Jarno (delegate)
       member Philipp Kern (delegate)
• Policy — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Russ Allbery (delegate)
       member Sean Whitton (delegate)
• Cloud Team — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Bastian Blank (delegate)
       member Noah Meyerhans
       member Ross Vandegrift (delegate)

Communication and Outreach

• Data Protection team — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Aigars Mahinovs
       member Andrew M.A. Cater
       member Bart Martens
       member Emmanuel Arias
       member Gunnar Wolf
       member Kiran S Kunjumon
       member Salvo Tomaselli
• Publicity team — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Anupa Ann Joseph (delegate)
       member Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (delegate)
       member Jean-Pierre Giraud (delegate)
       member Joost van Baal-Ilić (delegate)
  Press Contact — <[email protected]>
• Web Pages — <[email protected]>
       member Rhonda D'Vine
       member Kåre Thor Olsen
       member Paul Wise
       member Laura Arjona Reina
       member Carsten Schoenert
       member Thomas Lange
• Planet Debian — <[email protected]>
       member Benjamin Mako Hill
       member Joerg Jaspert
       member Jordi Mallach
• Outreach — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Abhijith PA (delegate)
       member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
       member Lucas Kanashiro (delegate; he/him)
       member Nilesh Patra
       member Tássia Camões Araújo
• Community — <[email protected]> <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Andrew Cater (delegate; he/him)
       member Daniel Lenharo de Souza (delegate; he/him)
       member Dave Hibberd (delegate; he/him)
       member Luke W. Faraone (delegate; they/them)
       member Steve McIntyre (delegate; he/him)
       member Tiago Bartoletto Vaz (delegate; he/him)
       member Timo Röhling (delegate; he/him)
  To send a private message to all the members of the Community Team, use the OpenPGP key 817DAE61E2FE4CA28E1B7762A89C4D0527C4C869.
• DebConf Committee — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
       member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
       member Jongmin Kim (delegate)
       member Nattie Mayer-Hutchings (delegate)
       member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
       member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
       member Stefano Rivera (delegate)
• Partner Program — <[email protected]>
       member Daniel Lange
       member Jonathan Carter
       member Laura Arjona Reina
       member Thomas Lange
• Hardware Donations Coordination — <[email protected]>
       member Bernd Zeimetz
       member Martin Zobel-Helas
       member Benjamin Mako Hill
       member Rob Bradford

Support and Infrastructure

• Bug Tracking System — <[email protected]>
       member Don Armstrong
       member Blars Blarson
       member Josip Rodin
       member Colin Watson
• Mailing Lists Administration and Mailing List Archives — <[email protected]>
       member Alexander Wirt
       member Cord Beermann
       member Don Armstrong
       member Martin Zobel-Helas
       member Hanno Wagner
• New Members Front Desk — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Enrico Zini (delegate)
       member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
       member Mattia Rizzolo (delegate)
       member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
       member Tobias Frost (delegate)
       member Tiago Bortoletto Vaz (delegate)
       member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (delegate)
• Debian Account Managers — <[email protected]> — 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 OpenPGP key 57731224A9762EA155AB2A530CA8D15BB24D96F2.
• Keyring Maintainers (OpenPGP) — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Gunnar Wolf (delegate)
       member John Sullivan (delegate)
       member Jonathan McDowell (delegate; he/him)
• Security Team — <[email protected]>
       member Alberto Garcia
       member Andres Salomon
       member Aron Xu
       member Florian Weimer
       member Markus Koschany
       member Moritz Muehlenhoff
       member Salvatore Bonaccorso
       member Sebastien Delafond
       member Thijs Kinkhorst
       member Yves-Alexis Perez
• System Administration — <[email protected]> — 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 Aurélien Jarno (delegate)
       member Héctor Orón Martínez (delegate)
       member Julien Cristau (delegate)
       member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
       member Paul Wise (delegate)
       member Peter Palfrader (delegate)
       member Philipp Kern (delegate)
       member Pierre-Elliott Bécue (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.
• Mirrors — <[email protected]>
       member Peter Palfrader
       member Julien Cristau
       member Adam D. Barratt
• DNS Maintainer — <[email protected]>
• Package Tracking System — <[email protected]>
• Treasurer — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Brian Gupta (delegate)
       member Philipp Hug (delegate)
       member Hector Oron (delegate)
       member Daniel Lange (delegate)
• Salsa administrators — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
       member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
       member Thomas Goirand (delegate)
       member Antonio Terceiro (delegate)
• tag2upload Delegates — <[email protected]> — delegation mail
       member Ian Jackson (delegate)

Membership in other organizations

• GNOME Foundation —
• Linux Professional Institute —
• Linux Magazine —
       role Advisory Council
• Linux Standards Base —
• Free Standards Group —
• OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards —
• Open Source Initiative —

Debian is a member of the above list of organizations, either directly or through SPI.

These organizational data can become outdated since they are not updated automatically after things change. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please send us corrections.