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Freexian is looking to expand its team with more Debian contributors

March 29, 2024 by Raphaël Hertzog

It’s been a while that I haven’t posted anything on my blog, the truth is that Freexian has been doing very well in the last years and that I have a hard time to allocate time to write articles or even to contribute to my usual Debian projects… the exception being debusine since that’s part of the Freexian work (have a look at our most recent announce!).

That being said, given Freexian’s growth and in the hope to reduce my workload, we are looking to extend our team with Debian members of more varied backgrounds and skills, so they can help us in areas like sales / marketing / project management. Have a look at our announce on debian-jobs@lists.debian.org.

As a mission-oriented company, we are looking to work with persons already involved in Debian (or persons who were waiting the right opportunity to get involved). All our collaborators can spend 20% of their paid work time on the Debian projects they care about.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2022

August 31, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work.

In July, we put aside 2389 EUR to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In July, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 0.00h (out of 14.00h assigned, thus carrying over 14.00h to the next month).
Andreas Rönnquist did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 10.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 10.50h to the next month).
Anton Gladky did 23.00h (out of 25.00h assigned, thus carrying over 2.00h to the next month).
Ben Hutchings did 3.00h (out of 24.00h assigned, thus carrying over 21.00h to the next month).
Dominik George did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 22.17h from previous period, thus carrying over 22.17h to the next month).
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 72.00h (out of 35.75h assigned).
Enrico Zini did 0.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 8.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 8.00h to the next month).
Markus Koschany did 35.75h (out of 35.75h assigned).
Ola Lundqvist did 8.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 12.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 4.00h to the next month).
Roberto C. Sánchez did 14.25h (out of 29.25h assigned and 2.75h from previous period, thus carrying over 17.75h to the next month).
Stefano Rivera did 8.00h (out of 6.25h assigned and 20.75h from previous period, thus carrying over 19.00h to the next month).
Sylvain Beucler did 3.50h (out of 35.75h assigned, thus carrying over 32.25h to the next month).
Thorsten Alteholz did 20.00h (out of 35.75h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 35.75 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).

Evolution of the situation

In July, we have released 3 DLAs. July was the period, when the Debian Stretch had already ELTS status, but Debian Buster was still in the hands of security team. Many member of LTS used this time to update internal infrastructure, documentation and some internal tickets. Now we are ready to take the next release in our hands: Buster!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 83 months)
- GitHub (for 74 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 51 months)
Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 94 months)
- Linode (for 88 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 78 months)
- Plat’Home (for 77 months)
- University of Oxford (for 33 months)
- Deveryware (for 20 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 15 months)
- EDF SA (for 4 months)
Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 99 months)
- The Positive Internet Company (for 99 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 93 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 85 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 84 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 78 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 68 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 62 months)
- CINECA (for 52 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 46 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 35 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 33 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 27 months)
- Platform.sh (for 27 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 21 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 18 months)
- Tilburg University (for 17 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 16 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 8 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 5 months)
Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 99 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 99 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 96 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 96 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 95 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 93 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 93 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 93 months)
- NUMLOG (for 93 months)
- WinGo AG (for 92 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 88 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 83 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 81 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 75 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 75 months)
- Tesorion (for 75 months)
- Bearstech (for 67 months)
- LiHAS (for 67 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 61 months)
- Supagro (for 57 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 55 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 41 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 33 months)
- SPiN AG (for 30 months)
- CoreFiling (for 26 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 20 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 17 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 12 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 11 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 10 months)
- Alter Way (for 3 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2022

July 26, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work.

In June, we put aside 2254 EUR to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In June, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 14.00h (out of 14.00h assigned).
Andreas Rönnquist did 14.50h (out of 14.50h assigned and 10.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 10.50h to the next month).
Anton Gladky did 16.00h (out of 16.00h assigned).
Ben Hutchings did 16.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 16.00h from previous period).
Chris Lamb did 18.00h (out of 18.00h assigned).
Dominik George did 1.83h (out of 6.00h assigned and 18.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 22.17h to the next month).
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 30.25h (out of 9.25h assigned and 21.00h from previous period).
Enrico Zini did 8.00h (out of 9.50h assigned and 6.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 8.00h to the next month).
Markus Koschany did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
Ola Lundqvist did nothing (out of 12.00 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).
Roberto C. Sánchez did 27.50h (out of 11.75h assigned and 18.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 2.75h to the next month).
Stefano Rivera did 8.00h (out of 30.25h assigned, thus carrying over 20.75h to the next month).
Sylvain Beucler did 30.25h (out of 13.75h assigned and 16.50h from previous period).
Thorsten Alteholz did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 30.25 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).

Evolution of the situation

In June we released 27 DLAs.

This is a special month, where we have two releases (stretch and jessie) as ELTS and NO release as LTS. Buster is still handled by the security team and will probably be given in LTS hands at the beginning of the August. During this month we are updating the infrastructure, documentation and improve our internal processes to switch to a new release.
Many developers have just returned back from Debconf22, hold in Prizren, Kosovo! Many (E)LTS members could meet face-to-face and discuss some technical and social topics! Also LTS BoF took place, where the project was introduced (link to video).

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold. We are pleased to welcome Alter Way where their support of Debian is publicly acknowledged at the higher level, see this French quote of Alterway’s CEO.

Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 82 months)
- GitHub (for 73 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 50 months)
Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 93 months)
- Linode (for 87 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 76 months)
- Plat’Home (for 76 months)
- University of Oxford (for 32 months)
- Deveryware (for 19 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 14 months)
- EDF SA (for 3 months)
Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 98 months)
- The Positive Internet Company (for 98 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 92 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 83 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 83 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 77 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 67 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 61 months)
- CINECA (for 50 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 45 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 34 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 32 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 26 months)
- Platform.sh (for 26 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 20 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 17 months)
- Tilburg University (for 16 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 15 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 7 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 4 months)
Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 98 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 98 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 95 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 95 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 94 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 92 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 92 months)
- NUMLOG (for 92 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 91 months)
- WinGo AG (for 91 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 87 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 82 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 80 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 74 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 74 months)
- Tesorion (for 74 months)
- Bearstech (for 66 months)
- LiHAS (for 65 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 60 months)
- Supagro (for 55 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 54 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 40 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 32 months)
- SPiN AG (for 29 months)
- CoreFiling (for 24 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 19 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 16 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 11 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 10 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 9 months)
- Alter Way

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2022

June 23, 2022 by Raphaël Hertzog

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

Two [1, 2] projects are in the pipeline now. Tryton project is in a final phase. Gradle projects is fighting with technical difficulties.

In May, we put aside 2233 EUR to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In May, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14h assigned).
Andreas Rönnquist did 14.5h (out of 25.0h assigned), thus carrying over 10.5h to June.
Anton Gladky did 19h (out of 19h assigned).
Ben Hutchings did 8h (out of 11h assigned and 13h from April), thus carrying over 16h to June.
Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
Dominik George did 2h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 18h to June.
Enrico Zini did 9.5h (out of 16.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.5h to June.
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 28h (out of 13.75h assigned and 35.25h from April), thus carrying over 21h to June.
Markus Koschany did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
Roberto C. Sánchez did 13.5h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over 18.5h to June.
Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 20h assigned and 20h from April), thus carrying over 16.5h to June.
Stefano Rivera did 5h in April and 14h in May (out of 17.5h assigned), thus anticipating 1.5h for June.
Thorsten Alteholz did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did 35h (out of 19h assigned and 30h from April), thus carrying over 14h to June.

Evolution of the situation

In May we released 49 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 71 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 65 packages needing an update.

The number of paid contributors increased significantly, we are pleased to welcome our latest team members: Andreas Rönnquist, Dominik George, Enrico Zini and Stefano Rivera.

It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. We are preparing to overtake Debian 10 Buster for the next two years and to make this process as smooth as possible.

But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it’s time to subscribe!

You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 81 months)
- GitHub (for 72 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 49 months)
Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 92 months)
- Linode (for 86 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 75 months)
- Plat’Home (for 75 months)
- University of Oxford (for 31 months)
- Deveryware (for 18 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 13 months)
- EDF SA
Silver sponsors:
- The Positive Internet Company (for 97 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 96 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 90 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 82 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 82 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 76 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 66 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 60 months)
- CINECA (for 49 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 43 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 33 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 31 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 25 months)
- Platform.sh (for 25 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 19 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 16 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 14 months)
- Tilburg University (for 14 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 6 months)
- Telecats BV (for 4 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 3 months)
Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 97 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 97 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 94 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 94 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 92 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 91 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 91 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 90 months)
- NUMLOG (for 90 months)
- WinGo AG (for 90 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 86 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 81 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 78 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 73 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 73 months)
- Tesorion (for 73 months)
- Bearstech (for 64 months)
- LiHAS (for 64 months)
- People Doc (for 61 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 59 months)
- Supagro (for 54 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 53 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 39 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 31 months)
- SPiN AG (for 28 months)
- CoreFiling (for 23 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 18 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 15 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 10 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 9 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 8 months)
- Alter Way

Debian project funding

Debian LTS contributors

Evolution of the situation

Thanks to our sponsors

Debian project funding

Debian LTS contributors

Evolution of the situation

Thanks to our sponsors

Debian project funding

Debian LTS contributors

Evolution of the situation

Thanks to our sponsors

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