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# Archive Admin tasks

Archive Administration is done client side using the Launchpad API through
various tools. To
[get hold of these tools](https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-archive-tools/trunk):

```none
$ git clone lp:ubuntu-archive-tools
```

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## Tasks and responsibilities

The main tasks the Archive Admin team is responsible for are:

* [NEW review](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-new-review.md#aa-new-review)
* [Remove a package](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-package-removal.md#aa-package-removal)
* [Package overrides](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-package-overrides.md#aa-package-overrides)

Less commonly, they are asked to do the following tasks:

* [Priority mismatches](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-priority-mismatches.md#aa-priority-mismatches)
* [Signing bootloaders](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-signing-bootloaders.md#aa-signing-bootloaders)
* [Change phasing on delivering SRU updates](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-phasing-sru-updates.md#aa-phasing-sru-updates)
* [i386 allowlist updates](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-i386.md#aa-i386-allowlist-updates)
* [Check contributions to AA process and documentation](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/triage-aa-contributions.md#aa-triage-contributions)

The following list of Archive-related services needs to be updated with details
of the charmed hosted services as they are migrated.

- [Archive-related services](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/maintainers/AA/aa-archive-related-services.md#aa-archive-related-services)
