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<h1>The ftpmaster team</h1>
- <p>The members of ftpmaster currently are divided into two groups, FTP Master and FTP Assistants.</p>
+ <p>The members of ftpmaster currently are divided into three groups, FTP Master,FTP Assistants and FTP Trainee.</p>
<p>Members of FTP Master are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Joerg Jaspert</li>
<p>This information (and more like it) is available from
<a href="http://www.debian.org/intro/organization">Debian's Organizational Structure</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The FTP Master role, unix group <tt>debadmin</tt>, is responsible for:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Keep the archive running</li>
+ <li>Keep the archive legal</li>
+ <li>Support the teams that depend on it (Release, Security, soon backports/volatile)</li>
+ <li>Keep the archive uptodate with the requirements of the project</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The FTP Assistent role, unix group <tt>ftpteam</tt>, created in 2005,
+ allows the addition of people to the FTP Team without having to hand out
+ full FTP Master rights. It allows</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>to process NEW,</li>
+ <li>to handle overrides,</li>
+ <li>to remove packages.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The FTP Trainee role, group <tt>ftptrainee</tt>, was created in 2008 to allow easy training and testing of future team members.</p>
+ <p>Trainees can look at NEW and do the usual package checks, but they can not actually accept or reject a package. Instead they leave a note, which an Assistant or Master reads and acts on.</p>
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