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You are here: Home / News / Debian News / Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2019

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

May 21, 2019 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In April, 204 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 4 hours (out of 14 hours allocated, thus carrying over 10 hours to May).
  • Adrian Bunk did 8 hours (out of 8 hours allocated).
  • Ben Hutchings did 31.25 hours (out of 17.25 hours allocated plus 14 extra hours from April).
  • Brian May did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
  • Chris Lamb did 17 hours (out of 17.25 hours allocated, thus carrying over 0.25h to May).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8 hours (out of 17.25 hours allocated + 6 extra hours from March, thus carrying over 15.25h to May).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 17.25 hours.
  • Jonas Meurer did 14 hours (out of 14 hours allocated).
  • Markus Koschany did 17.25 hours.
  • Mike Gabriel did 11.5 hours (out of 17.25 hours allocated, thus carrying over 5.75h to May).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 5.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 1.5 extra hours from last month, thus carrying over 4h to May).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 1.75 hours (out of 12 hours allocated, thus carrying over 10.25h to May).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 17.25 hours.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 17.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

During this month, and after a two-year break, Jonas Meurer became again an active LTS contributor. Still, we continue to be looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

The number of sponsors did not change. There are 58 organizations sponsoring 215 work hours per month.

The security tracker currently lists 33 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 43 months)
    • GitHub (for 34 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 11 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet (for 60 months)
    • Blablacar (for 59 months)
    • Linode (for 48 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 38 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 37 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • Domeneshop AS (for 59 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 53 months)
    • Dalenys (for 49 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 45 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 45 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 38 months)
    • maxcluster GmbH (for 32 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 28 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 22 months)
    • Vente-privee.com (for 19 months)
    • CINECA (for 12 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 6 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 60 months)
    • Evolix (for 59 months)
    • MyTux (for 59 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 56 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 56 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 55 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 54 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 54 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 53 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 53 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 52 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 48 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 46 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 43 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 41 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 35 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 35 months)
    • Quarantainenet BV (for 35 months)
    • Bearstech (for 27 months)
    • LiHAS (for 27 months)
    • People Doc (for 23 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 21 months)
    • Supagro (for 17 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 15 months)
    • TrapX Security (for 12 months)
    • NCC Group (for 9 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes

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