Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In November, 114.50 work hours have been dispatched among 8 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
- Ben Hutchings did 5 hours only (out of 15 hours allocated + 5 extra hours remaining, meaning that he has 15 extra hours to do over December).
- Chris Lamb did 13 hours (12h allocated + 1h remaining).
- Guido Günther did 10 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 4 remaining, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
- Mike Gabriel did 6.5 hours only (out of 8 hours allocated + 8 hours remaining, the 9.5 unused extra hours have been dispatched to others for December).
- Raphaël Hertzog did 21.25 hours.
- Santiago Ruano Rincón did 19 hours (out of 21h allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
- Scott Kitterman did 8 hours.
- Thorsten Alteholz did 21.25 hours.
Evolution of the situation
We lost one hour of funding for December due to a sponsor not renewing, and we don’t have any new sponsor lined up right now. There’s another sponsor who will reduce his sponsorship starting with 2016.
While the situation is relatively healthy right now, we should continue the efforts to find new sponsors, both to ensure we can cover more software in wheezy and to better share the costs: having many small sponsors is more resilient than relying on a few big ones. And we still haven’t reached our second goal of funding the equivalent of a full-time position.
In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is close to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 19 packages awaiting an update (2 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 22 affected packages in total (1 less than last month).
Thanks to our sponsors
The new sponsors are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- Gold sponsors:
- The Positive Internet (for 18 months already)
- Blablacar (for 17 months already)
- Linode LLC (for 7 months already)
- Silver sponsors:
- David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 18 months already)
- Domeneshop AS (for 17 months already)
- Université Lille 3 (for 17 months already)
- Trollweb Solutions (for 15 months already)
- Gandi SAS (for 12 months already)
- University of Luxembourg (for 9 months already)
- Rentabiliweb Group (for 7 months already)
- Univention GmbH (for 3 months already)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 3 months already)
- Bronze sponsors:
- Offensive Security (for 18 months already)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 18 months already)
- Evolix (for 17 months already)
- Freeside Internet Service (for 17 months already)
- MyTux (for 17 months already)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 15 months already)
- Intevation GmbH (for 14 months already)
- Daevel SARL (for 13 months already)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 12 months already)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 12 months already)
- Gree, Inc. (for 11 months already)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 11 months already)
- NUMLOG (for 11 months already)
- WinGo AG (for 10 months already)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 6 months already)
- Sig-I/O (for 4 months already)
- Entr’ouvert
