Archive Administration

Every contributor to Ubuntu is concerned with the good health and long-term maintainability of the Package Archive. Although many operations can be handled by uploaders, there are certain specific activities in the Archive that require an additional level of administrative privileges above Core Dev. These specific activities are handled by the Archive Administration (AA) team.

The Ubuntu Package Archive Administrators team is often referred to as “the Archive Admins” or just “the AA team”.

The full list of tasks the Archive Admin team is responsible for can be found in Tasks and responsibilities.

How to contact the team

The Archive Admin team does not have a published shift rotation system as some other teams do. They perform the tasks they are responsible for on a regular basis to keep the machinery working in good order.

When you submit a bug that requires the attention of an Archive Admin, they will find it when processing Tasks and responsibilities. This means that you generally just need to follow the outlined processes (using bugs).

For special cases, you can contact an Archive Admin of your choice using the ubuntu-development or ubuntu-release channels on Matrix.

However, to speak directly to the AA team, you can use the ubuntu-development Matrix channel.

Service Level Objectives

This team does not have defined Service Level Objectives.