Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2018

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

Individual reports

In December, about 224 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours (out of 24 hours allocated).
• Ben Hutchings did 15 hours (out of 20 hours allocated, thus keeping 5 extra hours for January).
• Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 44 hours (out of 30 hours allocated + 39.25 extra hours, thus keeping 25.25 extra hours for January).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 20 hours (out of 20 hours allocated).
• Lucas Kanashiro did 3 hours (out of 4 hours allocated, thus keeping one extra hour for January).
• Markus Koschany did 30 hours (out of 30 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 21 hours (out of 10 hours allocated and 1 extra hour from November and 10 hours additionally allocated during the month).
• Ola Lundqvist did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 7 extra hours, thus keeping 7 extra hours for January).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 12.75 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 0.75 extra hours from November).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30 hours (out of 30 hours allocated).

Evolution of the situation

In December we managed to dispatch all the hours available to contributors again, and we had one new contributor in training. Still, we continue to be looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 31 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 39 months)
• GitHub (for 30 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 7 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 55 months)
• Blablacar (for 54 months)
• Linode (for 44 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 33 months)
• Plat’Home (for 33 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 55 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 49 months)
• Dalenys (for 45 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 40 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 40 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 34 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 28 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 24 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 18 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 15 months)
• CINECA (for 7 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 55 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 55 months)
• MyTux (for 54 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 52 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 52 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 51 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 49 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 49 months)
• NUMLOG (for 49 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 48 months)
• WinGo AG (for 48 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 44 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 42 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 39 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 37 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 31 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 31 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 31 months)
• Bearstech (for 23 months)
• LiHAS (for 23 months)
• People Doc (for 19 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 17 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 11 months)
• TrapX Security (for 8 months)
• NCC Group (for 5 months)