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
Publicity
Support and Infrastructure
Debian Pure Blends

Officers

Leader — <leader@debian.org>
current Lucas Nussbaum
Technical Committee — <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org>
     chairman Bdale Garbee
     member Russ Allbery
     member Don Armstrong
     member Andreas Barth
     member Ian Jackson
     member Steve Langasek
     member Colin Watson
Secretary — <secretary@debian.org> — delegation mail
current Kurt Roeckx
assistant Neil McGovern

Distribution

Development Projects — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
FTP Archives — <ftpmaster@debian.org> — delegation mail
- FTP Masters —
       member Ansgar Burchardt
       member Joerg Jaspert
       member Mark Hymers
- FTP Assistants —
       member Mike O'Connor
       member Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
       member Luca Falavigna
- FTP Wizards —
  member Torsten Werner
Backports — <team@backports.debian.org> — delegation mail
- Backports Team —
  member Alexander Wirt
  member Gerfried Fuchs
Individual Packages — <packagename>@packages.debian.org
Release Management — <debian-release@lists.debian.org>
- Release Team —
       manager Adam D. Barratt
       manager Neil McGovern
       SRM Adam D. Barratt
       SRM Philipp Kern
       assistant Dann Frazier
       assistant Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
       assistant Julien Cristau
       assistant Mehdi Dogguy
       assistant Niels Thykier
       assistant Cyril Brulebois
       assistant Jonathan Wiltshire
       wizard Andreas Barth
       wizard Luk Claes
       wizard Marc Brockschmidt
       wizard Steve Langasek
- Quality Assurance — <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
- Installation System Team — <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Release Notes — <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
  member Wolfgang Martin Borgert
- CD Images —
  - Production — <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
         member Philip Hands
         member Raphaël Hertzog
         member Richard Atterer
         member Santiago García Mantiñán
         member Steve McIntyre
         member Mattias Wadenstein
- Testing — <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
Autobuilding infrastructure —
- Wanna-build team — <debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org>
       member Andreas Barth
       member Kurt Roeckx
       member Marc Brockschmidt
       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 Marc Brockschmidt
       member Michael Banck
       member Peter De Schrijver
       member Philipp Kern
       member Riku Voipio
       member Samuel Thibault
       member Wouter Verhelst
Documentation — <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
     member Javier Fernández-Sanguino
     member W. Martin Borgert
     member Osamu Aoki
     member Josip Rodin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list — <debian-wnpp@lists.debian.org>
member David Moreno Garza
member Matej Vela
Live System Team — <debian-live@lists.debian.org>
Ports -- GNU/Linux —
- Alpha — <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
       member Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
       member Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
       member Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>
- AMD64 — <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
- ARM — <debian-arm@lists.debian.org>
- i386 — <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
- IA-64 — <debian-ia64@lists.debian.org>
  member Dann Frazier
- m68k — <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
- MIPS — <debian-mips@lists.debian.org>
- PA-RISC — <debian-hppa@lists.debian.org>
       member Carlos O'Donell
       member John David Anglin
       member Thibaut Varene
- PowerPC — <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
- S/390 — <debian-s390@lists.debian.org>
  member Philipp Kern
- SPARC/UltraSPARC — <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
  member Jurij Smakov
- SuperH — <debian-superh@lists.debian.org>
GNU/Hurd — <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
     member Guillem Jover
     member Jeff Bailey
     member Michael Banck
     member Pino Toscano
     member Samuel Thibault
     member Svante Signell
GNU/kFreeBSD — <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
     member Robert Millan
     member Steven Chamberlain
     member Petr Salinger
     member Christoph Egger
Special Configurations —
- Beowulf — <debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org>
- Laptops — <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
- Firewalls — <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
- Embedded systems — <debian-embedded@lists.debian.org>

Publicity

Press Contact — <press@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Francesca Ciceri
     member Martin Schulze
     member Neil McGovern
     assistant Paul Wise
     assistant Moray Allan
     assistant Kai Wasserbäch
Partner Program — <partners@debian.org>
     member Andre Felipe Machado
     member Meike Reichle
     member Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
     member Joerg Jaspert
Events — <events@debian.org>
     member Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Ana Carolina Comandulli
     member Annette Kalbow
     member Arne Wichmann
     member Fernando Estrada
     member Franziska Lichtblau
     member Joost van Baal-Ilić
     member Luca Capello
     member Marcelo Santana
     member Martin Schulze
     member Meike Reichle

Support and Infrastructure

User support —
- Catalan -- <debian-user-catalan@lists.debian.org>
- Chinese (Simplified) -- <debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org>
- Chinese (Traditional) -- <debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org>
- Danish -- <debian-user-danish@lists.debian.org>
- Dutch -- <debian-user-dutch@lists.debian.org>
- English -- <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
- Esperanto -- <debian-esperanto@lists.debian.org>
- Finnish -- <debian-user-finnish@lists.debian.org>
- French -- <debian-user-french@lists.debian.org>
- German -- <debian-user-german@lists.debian.org>
- Greek -- <debian-user-greek@lists.debian.org>
- Icelandic -- <debian-user-icelandic@lists.debian.org>
- Indonesian -- <debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org>
- Italian -- <debian-italian@lists.debian.org>
- Japanese -- <debian-japanese@lists.debian.org>
- Polish -- <debian-user-polish@lists.debian.org>
- Portuguese -- <debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org>
- Russian -- <debian-russian@lists.debian.org>
- Slovenian -- <debian-user-slovenian@lists.debian.org>
- Spanish -- <debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org>
- Swedish -- <debian-user-swedish@lists.debian.org>
- Tamil -- <debian-user-tamil@lists.debian.org>
- Turkish -- <debian-user-turkish@lists.debian.org>
- Ukrainian -- <debian-user-ukrainian@lists.debian.org>
- Vietnamese -- <debian-user-vietnamese@lists.debian.org>
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>
     current Alexander Wirt
     current Cord Beermann
     current David Moreno Garza
     current Don Armstrong
     current Joey Schulze
     current Martin Zobel-Helas
     current Pascal Hakim
New Members Front Desk — <nm@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Bernd Zeimetz
     member Enrico Zini
     member Jan Hauke Rahm
     member Jonathan Wiltshire
Debian Account Managers — <da-manager@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Christoph Berg
     member Enrico Zini
Keyring Maintainers (PGP and GPG) — <keyring-maint@debian.org>
member Jonathan McDowell
member Gunnar Wolf
Security Team — <team@security.debian.org>
     member Aurelien Jarno
     member Dann Frazier
     member Florian Weimer
     member Giuseppe Iuculano
     member Luciano Bello
     member Martin Schulze
     member Moritz Muehlenhoff
     member Nico Golde
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Stefan Fritsch
     member Thijs Kinkhorst
     member Yves-Alexis Perez
     assistant Luk Claes
     assistant Salvatore Bonaccorso
     assistant Michael Gilbert
Testing Security Team — <secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
     member Neil McGovern
     member Micah Anderson
     member Florian Weimer
     member Stefan Fritsch
     member Steffen Joeris
     member Nico Golde
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Giuseppe Iuculano
Security Audit Project — <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
     member Steve Kemp
     member Ulf Härnhammar
     member Swaraj Bontula
     member Javier Fernández-Sanguino
Web Pages — <debian-www@lists.debian.org>
     current David Prévot
     current Francesca Ciceri
     current Gerfried Fuchs
     current Kåre Thor Olsen
     current Simon Paillard
     current Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Frank Lichtenheld
     member Josip Rodin
Consultants Page — <consultants@debian.org>
     member Andrei Popescu
     member Giuseppe Sacco
     member Holger Wansing
     member Martin Schulze
CD Vendors Page — <cdvendors@debian.org>
member Craig Small
member Richard Atterer
Planet Debian — <planet@debian.org>
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Jordi Mallach
Policy — <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Andreas Barth
     member Bill Allombert
     member Charles Plessy
     member Russ Allbery
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 Luca Filipozzi
     member Tollef Fog Heen
     member Stephen Gran
     member Faidon Liambotis
     member Peter Palfrader
     member Martin Zobel-Helas
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>
     current Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
     current Joerg Jaspert
     current Simon Paillard
DNS Maintainer — <hostmaster@debian.org>
Package Tracking System — <owner@packages.qa.debian.org>
member Raphaël Hertzog
Hardware Donations Coordination — <hardware-donations@debian.org>
     current Luca Filipozzi
     current Bernd Zeimetz
     current Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Rob Bradford
Auditor — <auditor@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Martin Michlmayr
member Martin Wuertele
Trademark use requests — <trademark@debian.org>
member current Debian Project Leader
member Brian Gupta
Alioth administrators — <admin@alioth.debian.org>
     member Roland Mas
     member Christian Bayle
     member Stephen Gran
     member Tollef Fog Heen
     member Alexander Wirt
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
DebConf chairs — <debconf-chairs@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Holger Levsen
     member Moray Allan
     member Gunnar Wolf

Debian Pure Blends

Debian Jr. -- Debian for children from 1 to 99 — <debian-jr@lists.debian.org>
member Ben Armstrong
Debian Med -- Debian for medical practice and research — <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
member Andreas Tille
Debian Edu -- Debian for education — <debian-edu@lists.debian.org>
     member Petter Reinholdtsen
     member Morten Werner Forsbring
     member Holger Levsen
     member Ronny Aasen
     member Steffen Joeris
Debian-Lex -- Debian in legal offices — <debian-lex@lists.debian.org>
member Jeremy Malcolm
member Elaine Ter
Debian Accessibility -- Debian for people with disabilities — <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
member Mario Lang
member Samuel Thibault
Debian Science -- Debian for science and related research — <debian-science@lists.debian.org>
member Sylvestre Ledru

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