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)

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

Individual reports

In November, about 209 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 13 hours (out of 13 extra hours from October).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours.
• Ben Hutchings did 20 hours.
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 38 hours (out of 30 hours allocated + 47.25 extra hours, thus keeping 39.25 extra hours for December).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 15 hours.
• Lucas Kanashiro did 4 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 30 hours.
• Mike Gabriel did 9 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 4 extra hours, but gave back 2 hours, thus keeping 1 extra hour for December).
• Ola Lundqvist did 9 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 8 extra hours, thus keeping 7 extra hours for December).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 13.75 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 2.5 extra hours, thus keeping 0.75 extra hours for December).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 12 hours (out of 18 extra hours, thus keeping 6 extra hours for December).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30 hours.

Evolution of the situation

In November we had a few more hours available to dispatch than we had contributors willing and able to do the work and thus we are actively looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested to become a paid LTS contributor.

The number of sponsored hours stayed the same at 212 hours per month but we actually lost two sponsors and gained a new one (silver level).

The security tracker currently lists 30 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 32 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 38 months)
• GitHub (for 29 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 6 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 54 months)
• Blablacar (for 53 months)
• Linode (for 43 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 32 months)
• Plat’Home (for 32 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 54 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 48 months)
• Dalenys (for 44 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 39 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 39 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 33 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 27 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 23 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 17 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 14 months)
• CINECA (for 6 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 54 months)
• Evolix (for 54 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 54 months)
• MyTux (for 53 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 51 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 51 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 50 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 48 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 48 months)
• NUMLOG (for 48 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 47 months)
• WinGo AG (for 47 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 43 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 41 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 38 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 36 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 30 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 30 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 30 months)
• Bearstech (for 22 months)
• LiHAS (for 21 months)
• People Doc (for 18 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 16 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 10 months)
• TrapX Security (for 7 months)
• NCC Group (for 4 months)

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

Individual reports

In October, about 209 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 1 hour (out of 10 hours allocated + 4 extra hours, thus keeping 13 extra hours for November).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours (out of 24 hours allocated).
• Ben Hutchings did 19 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 4 extra hours).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours (out of 18 hours allocated).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 12 hours (out of 30 hours allocated + 29.25 extra hours, thus keeping 47.25 extra hours for November).
• Holger Levsen did 1 hour (out of 8 hours allocated + 19.5 extra hours, but he gave back the remaining hours due to his new role, see below).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 10 hours (out of 10 hours allocated).
• Markus Koschany did 30 hours (out of 30 hours allocated).
• Mike Gabriel did 4 hours (out of 8 hours allocated, thus keeping 4 extra hours for November).
• Ola Lundqvist did 4 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 8 extra hours, but gave back 4 hours, thus keeping 8 extra hours for November).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 15.5 hours (out of 18 hours allocated, thus keeping 2.5 extra hours for November).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 10 hours (out of 28 extra hours, thus keeping 18 extra hours for November).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30 hours (out of 30 hours allocated).

Evolution of the situation

In November we are welcoming Brian May and Lucas Kanashiro back as contributors after they took some break from this work.

Holger Levsen is stepping down as LTS contributor but is taking over the role of LTS coordinator that was solely under the responsibility of Raphaël Hertzog up to now. Raphaël continues to handle the administrative side, but Holger will coordinate the LTS contributors ensuring that the work is done and that it is well done.

The number of sponsored hours increased to 212 hours per month, we gained a new sponsor (that shall not be named since they don’t want to be publicly listed).

The security tracker currently lists 27 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 27 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 37 months)
• GitHub (for 28 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 5 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 53 months)
• Blablacar (for 52 months)
• Linode (for 42 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 31 months)
• Plat’Home (for 31 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 53 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 47 months)
• Dalenys (for 43 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 38 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 38 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 32 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 26 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 22 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 16 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 13 months)
• CINECA (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 53 months)
• Evolix (for 53 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 53 months)
• MyTux (for 52 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 50 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 50 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 49 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 47 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 47 months)
• NUMLOG (for 47 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 46 months)
• WinGo AG (for 46 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 42 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 40 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 37 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 35 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 29 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 29 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 29 months)
• Bearstech (for 21 months)
• LiHAS (for 20 months)
• People Doc (for 17 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 15 months)
• Supagro (for 10 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 9 months)
• TrapX Security (for 6 months)
• NCC Group (for 3 months)

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

Individual reports

In September, about 227 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 11 hours (out of 10 hours allocated + 5 extra hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for October).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours.
• Ben Hutchings did 29 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 18 extra hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for October).
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did nothing (he had 29.25 hours allocated, thus keeping them all for October).
• Holger Levsen did 2.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 14 extra hours, thus keeping 19.5 extra hours for October).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 10 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 29.25 hours.
• Mike Gabriel did 10 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 2 extra hours).
• Ola Lundqvist did 7 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 11.5 remaining hours, but gave back 4.5 hours, thus keeping 8 extra hours for October).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 15 hours (out of 18h allocated + 12 extra hours, and gave back the 15 remaining hours).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 4 hours (out of 20 hours allocated + 12 extra hours, thus keeping 28 extra hours for October).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 29.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours decreased to 205 hours per month, we lost another small sponsor. Hopefully this trend will not continue. Time to subscribe your company if it’s not yet done!

The security tracker currently lists 30 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 24 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 37 months)
• GitHub (for 27 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 4 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 53 months)
• Blablacar (for 52 months)
• Linode (for 41 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 31 months)
• Plat’Home (for 30 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 52 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 46 months)
• Dalenys (for 42 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 38 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 38 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 31 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 25 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 21 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 15 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 12 months)
• CINECA (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 53 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 53 months)
• Evolix (for 52 months)
• MyTux (for 52 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 49 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 49 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 48 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 47 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 47 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 46 months)
• NUMLOG (for 46 months)
• WinGo AG (for 45 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 41 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 39 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 36 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 34 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 28 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 28 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 28 months)
• Bearstech (for 20 months)
• LiHAS (for 20 months)
• People Doc (for 16 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 14 months)
• Supagro (for 10 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 8 months)
• TrapX Security (for 5 months)
• NCC Group