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.