Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In December 46 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors (note that Thorsten and Raphaël have actually spent more hours because they took over some hours that Holger did not do over the former months). Their reports are available:
- Ben Hutchings (for his first month!).
- Holger Levsen
- Raphaël Hertzog
- Thorsten Alteholz
Evolution of the situation
Compared to last month, the number of paid work hours has almost not increased (we are at 48 hours per month). We still have a couple of new sponsors in the pipe but with the new year they did not complete the process yet. Hopefully next month will see a noticeable increase.
As usual, we are looking for more sponsors to reach our our minimal goal of funding the equivalent of a half-time position. Those of you who are struggling to spend money in the last quarter due to budget overrun, now is a good time to see if you want to include Debian LTS support in your 2015 budget!
In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks similar to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 30 packages awaiting an update (3 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 56 affected packages in total. We do not manage to clear the backlog but it’s not getting significantly worse either.
Thanks to our sponsors
- Gold sponsors:
- Silver sponsors:
- AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
- Blablacar
- Domeneshop AS
- Evolix
- Trollweb Solutions
- Université Lille 3
- Bronze sponsors:
