3.2.5. Retiring

If you choose to leave the Debian project, you should make sure you do the following steps:

• Orphan all your packages, as described in Orphaning a package.

• Remove yourself from uploaders for co- or team-maintained packages.

• If you received mails via a @debian.org e-mail alias (e.g. press@debian.org) and would like to get removed, open a RT ticket for the Debian System Administrators. Just send an e-mail to admin@rt.debian.org with “Debian RT” somewhere in the subject stating from which aliases you’d like to get removed.

• Please remember to also retire from teams, e.g. remove yourself from team wiki pages or salsa groups.

• Use the link https://nm.debian.org/process/emeritus to log in to nm.debian.org, request emeritus status and write a goodbye message that will be automatically posted on debian-private.

  Authentification to the NM site requires an SSO browser certificate. You can generate them on https://sso.debian.org.

  In the case you run into problems opening the retirement process yourself, contact NM front desk using nm@debian.org

It is important that the above process is followed, because finding inactive developers and orphaning their packages takes significant time and effort.