MOTU (Master of the Universe) are community developers approved by the Technical Board as authorized uploaders to Universe and Multiverse repositories. These repositories hold over 14,000 source packages ( Main has about 4,000 ) with over 1,000 having Ubuntu versions.

There are currently 55 MOTUs with a core of very active MOTUs of about 10.

Governance

• MOTU Council (Council Grayskull)

Task Lists

• unmetdeps - packages that are uninstallable because of unmet dependencies
• FTBFS - source packages that fail to build from source
• syncs
• merges
• SRU - stable release updates
• candidates

Documentation

• How to Package
  • Ubuntu Packaging Guide
• Policies
  • SRU
  • UVF
  • Sponsorships

Teams

• MOTU Security
• MOTU QA