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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)

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

July 17, 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 June, we put aside 5775 EUR to fund Debian projects for which 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 June, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 18.0h (out of 14h assigned and 19h from May), thus carrying over 15h to July.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 13.25h (out of 14h assigned and 2h from May), thus carrying over 2.75h to July.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 29h (out of 40h assigned), thus carrying over 11h to July.
  • 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 29.75h (out of 30h assigned plus 29.75h from May), thus carrying over 30h for July.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 10h (out of 12h assigned and 4.5h from May), thus carrying over 6.5h to July.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 12h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over 20h to July.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 40h assigned), thus is carrying over 40h for July.

Evolution of the situation

In June we released 30 DLAs. As already written last month we are looking for a Debian LTS project manager and team coordinator.
Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 41 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 23 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 70 months)
    • GitHub (for 60 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 38 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 81 months)
    • Linode (for 75 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 64 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 63 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 20 months)
    • Deveryware (for 7 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 86 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 85 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 79 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 71 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 71 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 65 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 54 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 48 months)
    • CINECA (for 38 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 32 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 21 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 19 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 14 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 13 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 7 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 5 months)
    • OVH US LLC (for 3 months)
    • Tilburg University (for 3 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 86 months)
    • Evolix (for 85 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 83 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 82 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 81 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 80 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 80 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 79 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 79 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 78 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 75 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 70 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 67 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 62 months)
    • Tesorion (for 62 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 61 months)
    • Bearstech (for 53 months)
    • LiHAS (for 53 months)
    • People Doc (for 49 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 47 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 41 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 28 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 20 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 16 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 12 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 7 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 3 months)

Submit your ideas for Debian and +1 those that you find important

June 17, 2021 by Raphaël Hertzog

A while ago, I got a request from Kentaro Hayashi on the project I use to manage funding requests addressed to Freexian. He was keen to see some improvements on the way reimbursement requests are handled in Debian. In my opinion, the idea is certainly good but he’s not part of the treasurer team and was not willing to implement the project either, so it was not really ready to be submitted to us.

To be able to fund a useful project, we need either someone that is willing to do the work and try to push it further in Debian, or we need a Debian team interested in the result of the project (and in that case, we can try to find someone willing to implement the project). In this case, it’s a bit sad that the treasurer team didn’t comment at all… but in general, what should we do with those suggestions ?

It would still be interesting to have a list of such suggestions and have Debian developers be able to advocate (+1) those suggestions. It’s in this spirit that Kentaro created the “Grow your ideas” project on salsa.debian.org. Browse the list of issues, submit your own and click on 👍 (+1) to bump the suggestions that you find interesting. And click on the “Watch” button on the homepage to receive notifications when others submit suggestions so that you can evaluate those suggestions and possibly improve them through your comments.

In the end, this can only help those that are looking for ways to contribute to Debian: maybe some of them will formalize a concrete action plan and request funding for it! We have a pile of money sitting unused that’s clearly targeted to pay contributors to improve our infrastructure. And we have endless lists of (wishlist) bugs on all our infrastructure projects (dak, distro-tracker, …). What are you waiting ?

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