Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2019

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

Individual reports

In March, 238 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14 hours (out of 14 hours allocated).
• Adrian Bunk did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated).
• Ben Hutchings did 22.5 hours (out of 20 hours allocated plus 16.5 extra hours from February, thus carrying over 14 hours to April).
• Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 26 hours (out of 29.5 hours allocated + 2.5 extra hours from February, thus carrying over 6h to April).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 20 hours (out of 20 hours allocated).
• Markus Koschany did 29.5 hours (out of 29.5 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 14 hours (out of 10 hours allocated + 4 extra hours from February).
• Ola Lundqvist did 8.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 2 extra hours from last month, thus carrying over 1.5h to April).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 12 hours (out of 12 hours allocated).
• Sylvain Beucler did 29.5 hours (out of 29.5 hours allocated).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 29.5 hours (out of 29.5 hours allocated).

Evolution of the situation

In March we had one new contributor, Sylvain Beucler, though we lost Antoine Beaupré. Thankfully we also gained Jonas Meurer starting in April, yet we are are still very much looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

On a positive note, we are also pleased to welcome a new French university among LTS sponsors: Université Grenoble Alpes.

The security tracker currently lists 36 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 39 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 42 months)
• GitHub (for 33 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 10 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 58 months)
• Blablacar (for 57 months)
• Linode (for 47 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 37 months)
• Plat’Home (for 36 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 58 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 52 months)
• Dalenys (for 48 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 44 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 43 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 37 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 31 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 27 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 21 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 18 months)
• CINECA (for 10 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 58 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 58 months)
• MyTux (for 57 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 55 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 55 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 54 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 52 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 52 months)
• NUMLOG (for 52 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 51 months)
• WinGo AG (for 51 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 47 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 45 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 42 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 40 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 34 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 34 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 34 months)
• Bearstech (for 26 months)
• LiHAS (for 26 months)
• People Doc (for 22 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 20 months)
• Supagro (for 16 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 14 months)
• TrapX Security (for 11 months)
• NCC Group (for 8 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes