Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2016

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In July, 136.6 work hours have been dispatched among 11 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré has been allocated 4 hours again but in the end he put back his 8 pending hours in the pool for the next months.
• Balint Reczey did 18 hours (out of 7 hours allocated + 2 remaining, thus keeping 2 extra hours for August).
• Ben Hutchings did 15 hours (out of 14.7 hours allocated + 1 remaining, keeping 0.7 extra hour for August).
• Brian May did 14.7 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 14 hours (out of 14.7 hours, thus keeping 0.7 hours for next month).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 13 hours (out of 14.7 hours allocated, thus keeping 1.7 hours extra hours for August).
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 14.7 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 14 hours (out of 14.7 hours assigned, thus keeping 0.7 extra hours for August).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 14 hours (out of 14.7h allocated + 11.25 remaining, the 11.95 extra hours will be put back in the global pool as Santiago is stepping down).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.7 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours jumped to 159 hours per month thanks to GitHub joining as our second platinum sponsor (funding 3 days of work per month)! Our funding goal is getting closer but it’s not there yet.

The security tracker currently lists 22 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file likewise. That’s a sharp decline compared to last month.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 10 months)
• GitHub
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 26 months)
• Blablacar (for 25 months)
• Linode LLC (for 15 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 4 months)
• Plat’Home (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 25 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 25 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 23 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 19 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 17 months)
• Dalenys (for 16 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 11 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 11 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 26 months)
• Evolix (for 26 months)
• Offensive Security (for 26 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 26 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 25 months)
• MyTux (for 25 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 23 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 22 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 21 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 20 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 20 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 19 months)
• NUMLOG (for 19 months)
• WinGo AG (for 18 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 15 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 12 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 10 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 7 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS
• Quarantainenet BV
• GNI MEDIA