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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2021

November 17, 2021 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for October below.

Debian project funding

  • Our project funding work continues with an active bid on the work of packaging gradle in Debian. The next steps are reviewing the bid and formal approval.
  • In October 2,475 EUR was put aside to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receiving more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In October 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below.

  • Adrian Bunk did 40.5h in October (out of 28.5h assigned and 18h remaining, thus keeping 6h for November).
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 14.75h in October (out of 2h assigned and 28h remaining, thus keeping 15.25h for November).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen did 1h (out of 12h assigned, but gave back the remaining 11h).
  • Jeremiah Foster worked 20h (out of 20h assigned and 10h remaining, thus keeping 10h for November).
  • Markus Koschany did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 5h (out of 5h assigned).
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 28.5h assigned, but gave back the remaining 5h).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In October we released 34 DLAs.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 22 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 74 months)
    • GitHub (for 64 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 42 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 85 months)
    • Linode (for 79 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 68 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 67 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 24 months)
    • Deveryware (for 11 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 90 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 89 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 83 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 75 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 75 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 69 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 59 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 53 months)
    • CINECA (for 42 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 36 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 25 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 23 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 18 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 17 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 12 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 9 months)
    • OVH US LLC (for 7 months)
    • Tilburg University (for 7 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 90 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 90 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 87 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 86 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 85 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 84 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 84 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 83 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 83 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 82 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 79 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 74 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 71 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 66 months)
    • Tesorion (for 66 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 65 months)
    • Bearstech (for 57 months)
    • LiHAS (for 57 months)
    • People Doc (for 53 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 52 months)
    • Supagro (for 47 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 46 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 32 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 24 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 20 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 16 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 11 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 7 months)
    • Tem Innovations GmbH
    • WordFinder.pro
    • CNRS DT INSU Résif

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2021

October 19, 2021 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

Folks from the LTS team, along with members of the Debian Android Tools team and Phil Morrel, have proposed work on the Java build tool, gradle, which is currently blocked due to the need to build with a plugin not available in Debian. The LTS team reviewed the project submission and it has been approved. After approval we’ve created a Request for Bids which is active now.

You’ll hear more about this through official Debian channels, but in the meantime, if you feel you can help with this project, please submit a bid. Thanks!

This September, Freexian set aside 2550 EUR to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In September, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA has returned hours and marked themselves inactive, at least for the time being. He did 0h out of 14h, carried over 14h and returned 28h.
  • Adrian Bunk did 19.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 12.75 from August), carrying over 18h to October.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 2h (out of 12.75h assigned and 19.25h from August), thus carrying over 30h to October.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 5.5h assigned plus 74.5h from August), thus is carrying over 80h for October.
  • Holger Levsen did 3h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 9h and carried over 3h.
  • Jeremiah Foster worked 10 hours (out of 20h assigned) on LTS work, carrying over 10h.
  • Lee Garrett did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 24.75h assigned and 23.75 from August), thus is carrying over 48.50h for October.
  • Markus Koschany did 43.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 18.75h from August)
  • Neil Williams did 24.5h (out of 24.75h assigned)
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 6h (out of 24.75h assigned and gave back 18.75h)
  • Sylvain Beucler did 27h (out of 24.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned) but did not publish his report yet.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 2 hours (out of 21h carried over from previous months), and is thus carrying 19h for October.

Evolution of the situation

In September we released 30 DLAs. September was also the second month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors.

Also, we would like say that we are always looking for new contributors to LTS. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 33 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 73 months)
    • GitHub (for 64 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 41 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 84 months)
    • Linode (for 78 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 67 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 67 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 23 months)
    • Deveryware (for 10 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 89 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 88 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 82 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 74 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 74 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 68 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 58 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 52 months)
    • CINECA (for 41 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 35 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 24 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 22 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 17 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 17 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 11 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 8 months)
    • OVH US LLC (for 6 months)
    • Tilburg University (for 6 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 89 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 89 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 86 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 85 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 84 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 83 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 83 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 82 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 82 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 81 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 78 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 73 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 70 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 65 months)
    • Tesorion (for 65 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 64 months)
    • Bearstech (for 56 months)
    • LiHAS (for 56 months)
    • People Doc (for 52 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 51 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 45 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 31 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 23 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 19 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 15 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 10 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 7 months)
    • Tem Innovations GmbH
    • WordFinder.pro

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2021

October 4, 2021 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In August, we put aside 2460 EUR to fund Debian projects. We received a new project proposal that got approved and there’s an associated bid request if you feel like proposing yourself to implement this project.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In August, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 4.0h (out of 14h assigned and 5h from August), thus carrying over 15h to September.
  • Adrian Bunk did 11h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 12.75h to September.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 1.25h (out of 13.25h assigned and 6h from August), thus carrying over 18h to September.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 23.75h assigned plus 50.75h from August), thus is carrying over 74.5h for September.
  • Holger Levsen did 3h (out of 12h assigned) to help coordinate the team, and gave back the remaining hours.
  • Lee Garrett did nothing (out of 23.75h assigned), thus is carrying over 23.75h for September.
  • Markus Koschany did 35h (out of 23.75h assigned and 30h from August), thus carrying over 18.75h to September.
  • Neil Williams did 24h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus anticipating 0.25h of October.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 22.25h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 1.5h to September.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 21.5h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 2.25h to September.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In August we released 30 DLAs.

This is the first month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors. We would like to thank Holger Levsen for his work on this role up to now.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 73 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 29 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 72 months)
    • GitHub (for 63 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 40 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 83 months)
    • Linode (for 77 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 67 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 66 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 22 months)
    • Deveryware (for 9 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 89 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 88 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 82 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 74 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 73 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 67 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 57 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 51 months)
    • CINECA (for 41 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 35 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 24 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 22 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 16 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 16 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 10 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 7 months)
    • Tilburg University (for 6 months)
    • OVH US LLC (for 5 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 88 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 88 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 85 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 85 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 84 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 83 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 82 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 82 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 82 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 81 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 77 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 72 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 70 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 64 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 64 months)
    • Tesorion (for 64 months)
    • Bearstech (for 56 months)
    • LiHAS (for 56 months)
    • People Doc (for 52 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 50 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 44 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 30 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 22 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 19 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 15 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 9 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 6 months)
    • Tem Innovations GmbH
    • WordFinder.pro

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2021

August 25, 2021 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In July, we put aside 2400 EUR to fund Debian projects. We haven’t received proposals of projects to fund in the last months, so we have scheduled a discussion during Debconf to try to to figure out why that is and how we can fix that. Join us on August 26th at 16:00 UTC on this link.

We are pleased to announce that Jeremiah Foster will help out to make this initiative a success : he can help Debian members to come up with solid proposals, he can look for people willing to do the work once the project has been formalized and approved, and he will make sure that the project implementation keeps on track when the actual work has begun.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In July, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 5.0h (out of 7h assigned and 3h remaining), thus carrying over 5h to August.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 12.75h (out of 16h assigned and 2.75h from June), thus carrying over 6h to August.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 39.75h assigned plus 11h from June), thus is carrying over 50.75h for August.
  • Holger Levsen‘s work was coordinating/managing the LTS team, he did 3.5h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 8.5h to the pool.
  • Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 30h assigned and 30h from June), thus carrying over 30h to August.
  • Ola Lundqvist did nothing (out of 12h assigned plus 20h from June), thus is carrying over 32h for August.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 13.5h (out of 32h assigned and 20h from June), and gave back 38.5h to the pool.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 39.75h (out of 39.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In July we released 30 DLAs. Also we were glad to welcome Neil Williams and Lee Garrett who became active contributors.

The security tracker currently lists 63 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 17 packages needing an update.

We would like to thank Holger Levsen for the years of work where he managed/coordinated the paid LTS contributors. Jeremiah Foster will take over his duties.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 71 months)
    • GitHub (for 62 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 39 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 82 months)
    • Linode (for 76 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 65 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 65 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 21 months)
    • Deveryware (for 8 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 87 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 86 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 80 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 72 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 72 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 66 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 56 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 50 months)
    • CINECA (for 39 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 33 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 23 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 21 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 15 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 15 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 9 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 6 months)
    • OVH US LLC (for 4 months)
    • Tilburg University (for 4 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 87 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 87 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 84 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 84 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 82 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 81 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 81 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 80 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 80 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 80 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 76 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 71 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 68 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 63 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 63 months)
    • Tesorion (for 63 months)
    • Bearstech (for 54 months)
    • LiHAS (for 54 months)
    • People Doc (for 51 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 49 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 43 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 29 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 21 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 18 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 13 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 8 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 5 months)
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