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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 ?

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

June 15, 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 May, we again put aside 2100 EUR to fund Debian projects. There was no proposals for new projects received, thus we’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Please do not hesitate to submit a proposal, if there is a project that could benefit from the funding!

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

  • Abhijith PA did 7.0h (out of 14h assigned and 12h from April), thus carrying over 19h to June.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 16h (out of 13.5h assigned plus 4.5h from April), thus is carrying over 2h for June.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen‘s work was coordinating/managing the LTS team, he did 5.5h and gave back 6.5h to the pool.
  • Markus Koschany did 15h (out of 29.75h assigned and 15h from April), thus carrying over 29.75h to June.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 12h (out of 12h assigned and 4.5h from April), thus carrying over 4.5h to June.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 7.5h (out of 27.5h assigned and 27h from April), and gave back 47h to the pool.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 29.75h (out of 29.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 29.75h (out of 29.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 29.75h (out of 29.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In May we released 33 DLAs and mostly skipped our public IRC meeting and the end of the month. In June we’ll have another team meeting using video as lined out on our LTS meeting page.
Also, two months ago we announced that Holger would step back from his coordinator role and today we are announcing that he is back for the time being, until a new coordinator is found.
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 21 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 69 months)
    • GitHub (for 59 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 37 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 84 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 80 months)
    • Linode (for 74 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 63 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 62 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 19 months)
    • Deveryware (for 6 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 85 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 84 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 78 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 70 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 70 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 64 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 53 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 47 months)
    • CINECA (for 37 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 31 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 20 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 18 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 13 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 12 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 6 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 4 months)
    • OVH US LLC
    • Tilburg University
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 85 months)
    • Evolix (for 84 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 82 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 81 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 80 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 79 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 79 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 78 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 78 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 77 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 73 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 69 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 66 months)
    • Tesorion (for 61 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 60 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 60 months)
    • Bearstech (for 52 months)
    • LiHAS (for 52 months)
    • People Doc (for 48 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 46 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 40 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 26 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 18 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 15 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 11 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 6 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble

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

May 28, 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 April, we put aside 5775 EUR to fund Debian projects. There was no proposals for new projects received, thus we’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Please do not hesitate to submit a proposal, if there is a project that could benefit from the funding!

Debian LTS contributors

In April, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14h assigned and 12h from March), thus carrying over 12h to May.
  • Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 14h (out of 16h assigned and 2.5h from March), thus carrying over 4.5h to May.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen‘s work was coordinating/managing the LTS team, he did 10h (out of 12h assigned), and gave 2h back to the pool.
  • Markus Koschany did 15.0h (out of 30h assigned), thus carrying over 15h to May.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 12h assigned), thus carrying over 4.5h to May.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 9.5h (out of 32h assigned and 4.5h from March), thus carrying over 27h to May.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 60h (out of 60h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In April we released 33 DLAs and held a LTS team meeting using video conferencing.

The security tracker currently lists 53 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.

We are please to welcome VyOS as a new gold sponsor!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 68 months)
    • GitHub (for 59 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 36 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 83 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 79 months)
    • Linode (for 73 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 62 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 62 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 18 months)
    • Deveryware (for 5 months)
    • VyOS
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 84 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 83 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 77 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 69 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 69 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 63 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 53 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 47 months)
    • CINECA (for 36 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 30 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 20 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 18 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 12 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 12 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 6 months)
    • sipgate GmbH (for 3 months)
    • OVH US LLC
    • Tilburg University
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 84 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 84 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 81 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 81 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 79 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 78 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 78 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 77 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 77 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 77 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 73 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 68 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 65 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 60 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 60 months)
    • Tesorion (for 60 months)
    • Bearstech (for 51 months)
    • LiHAS (for 51 months)
    • People Doc (for 48 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 46 months)
    • Supagro (for 41 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 40 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 26 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 18 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 15 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 10 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 5 months)
    • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble

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