CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

The CTAN Team

Current Members

Currently, the fol­low­ing per­sons (in chronolog­i­cal or­der) are tak­ing care of CTAN:

Gerd Neuge­bauer (since 2012)
web master
Pe­tra Rübe-Pugliese (since 2012)
up­load man­age­ment
Man­fred Lotz (since 2014)
up­load man­age­ment
Erik Braun (since 2015)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion, up­load man­age­ment
Vincent Goulet (since 2025)
up­load man­age­ment

Former Members

In the past the following persons have been part of the CTAN team (chronologically):

George Greenwade (1992–?)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
Sebastian Rahtz (1992–?)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
Karl Berry (1995–1999)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
Reinhard Zierke (2002–2005)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
Nelson Beebe (2003–?)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
Jim Hefferon (?–2011)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion and upload management
Robin Fairbairns (?–2015)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion and upload management
Joachim Schrod (1992–2019)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion; formerly upload management
Rainer Schöpf (1992–2019)
sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion and mir­ror management; formerly upload management
Ina Dau (2014–2024)
up­load man­age­ment

Many thanks for their various activities.

Areas of Activity

Up­load man­age­ment
The up­load man­age­ment takes care of the uploads. The uploaded packages are validated. The catalogue is updated. The packages are placed on the central archive server for download. An announcement is sent to the mailing list. This activity includes communication with the contributors to clarify any open question.
Web master
The web master takes care of the CTAN portal. This involves the maintenance of the software and static content pages as well as supervising the import of the catalogue import into the database.
Mir­ror management
The mir­ror management includes the processes of adding new mirrors and deleting old ones as well as the supervising of the state of the various mirrors wrt. reachability and accurateness of their content. The mirror management also includes the mirror redirector which selects a geographically close mirror. In addition the mirroring of software from other locations into CTAN is a task at hand.
Sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion
The sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion takes case of the central server. It includes the regular software update.
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