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
Debian Pure Blends

Officers

Leader — <leader@debian.org>
current Chris Lamb
Technical Committee — <debian-ctte@lists.debian.org> — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail — appointment mail
     member Didier Raboud
     member Philip Hands
     member Tollef Fog Heen
     chair Margarita Manterola
     member David Bremner
     member Niko Tyni
     member Gunnar Wolf
     member Simon McVittie
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 Burchardt (delegate)
       member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
       member Luke W. Faraone (delegate)
       member Mark Hymers (delegate)
- FTP Assistants —
       member Chris Lamb
       member Luca Falavigna
       member Paul Tagliamonte
       member Scott Kitterman
- FTP Wizards —
  member Mike O'Connor
  member Torsten Werner
Backports — <backports-team@debian.org> — delegation mail
- Backports Team —
  member Alexander Wirt (delegate)
  member Rhonda D'Vine (delegate)
Individual Packages — <packagename>@packages.debian.org
Release Management —
- Release Team — <debian-release@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail
       manager Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (delegate)
       manager Niels Thykier (delegate)
       SRM Adam D. Barratt (delegate)
       SRM Julien Cristau (delegate)
       SRM Philipp Kern (delegate)
       assistant Andreas Barth (delegate)
       assistant Cyril Brulebois (delegate)
       assistant Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (delegate)
       assistant Ivo De Decker (delegate)
       assistant Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
       assistant Mehdi Dogguy (delegate)
       assistant Paul Gevers (delegate)
- 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 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
       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 Matej Vela
Debian Live 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>
- SuperH — <debian-superh@lists.debian.org>
GNU/Hurd — <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
member Samuel Thibault
member Svante Signell
GNU/kFreeBSD — <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
member Steven Chamberlain
member Christoph Egger
Special Configurations —
- Laptops — <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
- Firewalls — <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
- Embedded systems — <debian-embedded@lists.debian.org>

Communication and Outreach

Data Protection team — <data-protection@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Jonathan McDowell (delegate)
member Tollef Fog Heen (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>
     current Rhonda D'Vine
     current Kåre Thor Olsen
     current Simon Paillard
     current Martin Zobel-Helas
     current Paul Wise
     current Laura Arjona Reina
     member Frank Lichtenheld
     member Josip Rodin
Planet Debian — <planet@debian.org>
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Joerg Jaspert
     member Jordi Mallach
Outreach — <outreach@debian.org> — delegation mail
member Nicolas Dandrimont
member Sylvestre Ledru
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
Anti-harassment — <antiharassment@debian.org>
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Martín Ferrari
     member Molly de Blanc
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-team@lists.debian.org> — delegation mail>
     member Jonathan Cristopher Carter (delegate)
     member Daniel Lange (delegate)
     member Lucas Nussbaum (delegate)
     member Didier Raboud (delegate)
     member Stefano Rivera (delegate)
Partner Program — <partners@debian.org>
     member Andre Felipe Machado
     member Laura Arjona Reina
     member Luca Filipozzi
Hardware Donations Coordination — <hardware-donations@debian.org>
     current Luca Filipozzi
     current Bernd Zeimetz
     current Martin Zobel-Helas
     member Benjamin Mako Hill
     member Rob Bradford

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 Enrico Zini (delegate)
     member Jonathan Wiltshire (delegate)
     member Jonathan McDowell (delegate)
     member Mattia Rizzolo (delegate)
     member Santiago Ruano Rincón (delegate)
Debian Account Managers — <da-manager@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Enrico Zini (delegate)
     member Joerg Jaspert (delegate)
     member Jonathan Wiltshire (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)
Security Team — <team@security.debian.org>
     member Alessandro Ghedini
     member Florian Weimer
     member Luciano Bello
     member Michael Gilbert
     member Moritz Muehlenhoff
     member Nico Golde
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Salvatore Bonaccorso
     member Sebastien Delafond
     member Thijs Kinkhorst
     member Yves-Alexis Perez
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
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 Aurelien Jarno (delegate)
     member Héctor Orón Martínez (delegate)
     member Julien Cristau (delegate)
     member Luca Filipozzi (delegate)
     member Martin Zobel-Helas (delegate)
     member Paul Wise (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>
     current Bastian Blank
     current Joerg Jaspert
     current Peter Palfrader
     member Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
     member Raphael Geissert
     member Simon Paillard
DNS Maintainer — <hostmaster@debian.org>
Package Tracking System — <owner@packages.qa.debian.org>
member Raphaël Hertzog
Treasurer — <treasurer@debian.org> — delegation mail
     member Brian Gupta (delegate)
     member Philipp Hug (delegate)
     member Hector Oron (delegate)
     member Martin Michlmayr
     member Martin Wuertele
Trademark use requests — <trademark@debian.org>
member Brian Gupta
member Richard Hartmann
Salsa administrators — <salsa-admin@debian.org>
     member Alexander Wirt
     member Bastian Blank
     member Joerg Jaspert

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 Holger Levsen
     member Ronny Aasen
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
Debian Astro — Debian for astronomy — <debian-astro@lists.debian.org>
member Ole Streicher

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