Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for February below.
Debian project funding
- In February Raphaël and the LTS worked on a survey of Debian developers meant to solicit ideas for improvements in the Debian project at large. You can see the results of the initial discussion here in the list of ideas of which there are already over 30.
- The full survey is due to be emailed to Debian Developers shortly.
- In February € 2250 was put aside to fund Debian projects.
Debian LTS contributors
In February, 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you’re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Raphaël if you are if you are interested in participating.
- Abhijith PA did 10h out of 10h available.
- Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h available.
- Ben Hutchings did 16h out of 16h available.
- Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h available.
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 42.75h out of 42.75h available.
- Jeremiah Foster worked 20 hours out of 20 available on LTS administration and 2.9 hours on funded projects.
- Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 10h to March.
- Roberto C. Sánchez did 12h out of 12h available.
- Sylvain Beucler did 13h (out of 40h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.
- Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h available.
- Utkarsh Gupta did 15.75h (out of 42.75h available), thus carrying over 27h to March.
Evolution of the situation
In February we released 24 DLAs.
The security tracker currently lists 61 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.
You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:
Thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 78 months)
- GitHub (for 68 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 46 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 89 months)
- Linode (for 83 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 72 months)
- Plat’Home (for 71 months)
- University of Oxford (for 28 months)
- Deveryware (for 15 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 10 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- The Positive Internet Company (for 94 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 93 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 87 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 79 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 79 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 73 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 63 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 57 months)
- CINECA (for 46 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 40 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 29 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 27 months)
- Platform.sh (for 22 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 21 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 16 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 13 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 11 months)
- Tilburg University (for 11 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
- Telecats BV
- Soliton Systems K.K.
- Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 94 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 94 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 91 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 90 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 89 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 88 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 88 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 87 months)
- NUMLOG (for 87 months)
- WinGo AG (for 86 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 83 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 78 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 75 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 70 months)
- Tesorion (for 70 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 69 months)
- Bearstech (for 61 months)
- LiHAS (for 61 months)
- People Doc (for 57 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 56 months)
- Supagro (for 51 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 50 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 36 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 28 months)
- SPiN AG (for 24 months)
- CoreFiling (for 20 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 15 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 11 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 6 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 6 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 4 months)
