Roles
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Arch Linux is maintained by individuals of the following roles (among others):
- Developer
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Developers maintain the core and extra repositories, develop Arch projects and maintain the
*.archlinux.org
servers.
- Trusted User
- Trusted Users maintain the AUR and the community repository.
- Arch tester
- The Arch Testing Team makes sure that packages submitted to the testing repositories are functional.
- Arch security tracker
- The Arch Security Team tracks security issues with packages on security.archlinux.org.
- Forum moderator
- Forum moderators moderate the Arch Linux Forums.
- IRC moderator
- IRC channel operators moderate the main IRC channels.
- ArchWiki maintainer
- The ArchWiki Maintenance Team supervises and fixes the edits made in the ArchWiki.
- ArchWiki translator
- The ArchWiki Translation Teams translate the ArchWiki into other languages.
Package maintainer
The role of a package maintainer is to update packages as new versions become available upstream and to field support questions relating to bugs in said packages. The term applies to:
- Developers who maintains packages in the official repositories (core, extra, or testing).
- Trusted Users who maintain packages in the community repository.
- Normal users who maintain packages in the AUR.
The maintainer of a package is the person currently responsible for the package. Previous maintainers should be listed as contributors in the PKGBUILD along with others who have contributed to the package.