Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In January, about 159 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
- Antoine Beaupré did 12.75 hours.
- Balint Reczey did 14 hours (out of 12.75 hours allocated + 2.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 1.25 hours for February).
- Ben Hutchings did 3 hours (out of 12.75 hours allocated + 5.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 15.25 extra hours for February).
- Chris Lamb did 12.75 hours.
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 15.25 hours (out of 12.75 hours allocated + 2.5 hours remaining).
- Guido Günther did 8 hours.
- Hugo Lefeuvre did 15.25 hours (out of 12.75 hours allocated + 2.5 hours remaining).
- Jonas Meurer did 9 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 6.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 9.75 extra hours for February).
- Markus Koschany did 12.75 hours.
- Ola Lundqvist did 12.75 hours.
- Raphaël Hertzog did 10 hours.
- Roberto C. Sanchez did 12.5 hours (out of 12.75 hours allocated, thus keeping 0.25 hours for February).
- Thorsten Alteholz did 12.75 hours.
Evolution of the situation
The number of sponsored hours increased slightly thanks to Exonet joining us.
The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 36. The situation is roughly similar to last month even though the number of open issues increased slightly.
Thanks to our sponsors
New sponsors are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- Gold sponsors:
- The Positive Internet (for 32 months)
- Blablacar (for 31 months)
- Linode LLC (for 21 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 10 months)
- Plat’Home (for 10 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 31 months)
- Université Lille 3 (for 31 months)
- Trollweb Solutions (for 29 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 25 months)
- University of Luxembourg (for 23 months)
- Dalenys (for 22 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 17 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 17 months)
- Sonus Networks (for 11 months)
- UR Communications BV (for 5 months)
- maxcluster GmbH (for 5 months)
- Exonet B.V.
- Bronze sponsors:
- David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 32 months)
- Evolix (for 32 months)
- Offensive Security (for 32 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 32 months)
- Freeside Internet Service (for 31 months)
- MyTux (for 31 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 29 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 28 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 27 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 26 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 26 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 25 months)
- NUMLOG (for 25 months)
- WinGo AG (for 24 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 21 months)
- Sig-I/O (for 18 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 16 months)
- Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 13 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 8 months)
- Quarantainenet BV (for 8 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 7 months)
- RHX Srl (for 5 months)
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