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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2020

December 18, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In November, 239.25 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 12.0h (out of 12h assigned).
  • Adrian Bunk did 13h (out of 22.75h assigned and 19.5h from October) and gave back 6.5h, thus carrying over 22.75h to December.
  • Ben Hutchings did 11.5h (out of 16h assigned and 4.5h from October), thus carrying over 9h to December.
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 22.75h (out of 22.75h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen did 8.0h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
  • Markus Koschany did 12h (out of 22.75h assigned), thus carrying over 10.75h to December.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 1h (out of 12h assigned), thus carrying over 11h to December.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 20.5h (out of 22.75h assigned), thus carrying over 2.25h to December.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 22.75h (out of 22.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 22.75h (out of 22.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 22.75h (out of 22.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In November we held the last LTS team meeting for 2020 on IRC, with the next one coming up at the end of January.
We announced a new formalized initiative for Funding Debian projects with money from Freexian’s LTS service.
Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested!

We’re also glad to welcome two new sponsors, Moxa, a device manufacturer, and a French research lab (Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod).

The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 40 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 63 months)
    • GitHub (for 53 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 31 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 78 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 74 months)
    • Linode (for 68 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 57 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 56 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 13 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 79 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 78 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 72 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 64 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 64 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 58 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 47 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 41 months)
    • CINECA (for 31 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 25 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 14 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 12 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 7 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 6 months)
    • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd.
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 79 months)
    • Evolix (for 78 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 76 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 75 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 74 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 73 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 73 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 72 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 72 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 71 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 68 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 63 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 60 months)
    • Tesorion (for 55 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 54 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 54 months)
    • Bearstech (for 46 months)
    • LiHAS (for 46 months)
    • People Doc (for 42 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 40 months)
    • Supagro (for 36 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 34 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 21 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 12 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 9 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 5 months)
    • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod

Funding Debian development projects with Freexian, first project received!

December 14, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

After an unexpectedly short discussion on debian-project, we’re moving forward with this new initiative. The Debian security team submitted a project proposal requesting some improvements to tracker.debian.org, and since nobody of the security team wants to be paid to implement the project, we have opened a request for bids to find someone to implement this on a contractor basis.

If you can code in Python following test-driven development and know the Django framework, feel free to submit a bid! Ideally you have some experience with the security tracker too but that’s not a strong requirement.

About the project

If you haven’t read the discussion on debian-project, Freexian is putting aside part of the money collected for Debian LTS to use it to fund generic Debian development projects. The goal is two-fold:

  1. First, the LTS work necessarily had an impact on other Debian teams that made the project possible (security team, DSA, buildd, ftpmasters, debian-www mainly) and we wanted to be able to give back to those teams by funding improvements to their infrastructure.
  2. We have always allowed paid contributors to go beyond just preparing security updates for the LTS release. They can pick tasks that improve the LTS project at large (we try to collect such tasks here: https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues) but they should not go over 25% of their allocated monthly hours so this limits their ability to tackle bigger projects and we would like to be able to tackle bigger projects that can have a meaningful impact on the LTS project and/or Debian in general.

We have tried to formalize a process to follow from project submission up to its implementation  in this salsa project:
https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding
https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/blob/master/Rules-LTS.md

We highly encourage the above-mentioned Debian teams to make proposals. A member of those teams can implement the project and be paid for it. Or they can decide to let someone else implement it (we expect some of the paid LTS contributors to be willing to implement such projects), and just play the reviewer role driving the person doing the work in the right direction. Contrary to Google’s Summer of code and other similar projects, we put the focus on the results (and not in recruiting new volunteers), so we expect to work with experienced persons to implement the project. But if the reviewer is happy to be a mentor and spend more time, then it’s OK for us too. The reviewer is (usually) not a paid position.

If you’re not among those teams, but if you have a project that can have a positive impact on Debian LTS (even if only indirectly in the distant future), feel free to try your chance and to submit a proposal.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2020

November 17, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In October, 221.50 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 16.0h (out of 14h assigned and 2h from September).
  • Adrian Bunk did 7h (out of 20.75h assigned and 5.75h from September), thus carrying over 19.5h to November.
  • Ben Hutchings did 11.5h (out of 6.25h assigned and 9.75h from September), thus carrying over 4.5h to November.
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 20.75h (out of 20.75h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen did 7.0h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
  • Markus Koschany did 20.75h (out of 20.75h assigned).
  • Mike Gabriel gave back the 8h he was assigned. See below 🙂
  • Ola Lundqvist did 10.5h (out of 8h assigned and 2.5h from September).
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 13.5h (out of 20.75h assigned) and gave back 7.25h to the pool.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 20.75h (out of 20.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 20.75h (out of 20.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 20.75h (out of 20.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

October was a regular LTS month with a LTS team meeting done via video chat thus there’s no log to be shared. After more than five years of contributing to LTS (and ELTS), Mike Gabriel announced that he founded a new company called Frei(e) Software GmbH and thus would leave us to concentrate on this new endeavor. Best of luck with that, Mike! So, once again, this is a good moment to remind that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 42 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 39 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 62 months)
    • GitHub (for 52 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 30 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 77 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 73 months)
    • Linode (for 67 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 56 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 55 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 12 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 78 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 77 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 71 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 63 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 63 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 57 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 46 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 40 months)
    • CINECA (for 30 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 24 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 13 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 11 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 6 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 5 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 78 months)
    • Evolix (for 77 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 75 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 74 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 73 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 72 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 72 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 71 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 71 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 70 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 66 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 62 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 59 months)
    • Tesorion (for 54 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 53 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 53 months)
    • Bearstech (for 45 months)
    • LiHAS (for 45 months)
    • People Doc (for 41 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 39 months)
    • Supagro (for 35 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 33 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 19 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 11 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 8 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 4 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2020

October 15, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In September, 208.25 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 12.0h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 2h to October.
  • Adrian Bunk did 14h (out of 19.75h assigned), thus carrying over 5.75h to October.
  • Ben Hutchings did 8.25h (out of 16h assigned and 9.75h from August), but gave back 7.75h, thus carrying over 9.75h to October.
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
  • Holger Levsen did 5h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
  • Markus Koschany did 31.75h (out of 19.75h assigned and 12h from August).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 9.5h (out of 12h from August), thus carrying 2.5h to October.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 8.75h (out of 19.75h assigned), while he already anticipated the remaining 11h in August.

Evolution of the situation

September was a regular LTS month with an IRC meeting.

The security tracker currently lists 45 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 48 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 61 months)
    • GitHub (for 51 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 28 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 76 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 71 months)
    • Linode (for 66 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 55 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 54 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 10 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 77 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 76 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 70 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 62 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 62 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 55 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 45 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 39 months)
    • CINECA (for 29 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 23 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 12 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 10 months)
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 4 months)
    • Platform.sh (for 4 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 77 months)
    • Evolix (for 76 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 74 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 73 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 72 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 71 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 71 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 70 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 70 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 69 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 65 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 60 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 58 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 52 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 52 months)
    • Tesorion (for 52 months)
    • Bearstech (for 44 months)
    • LiHAS (for 44 months)
    • People Doc (for 40 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 38 months)
    • Supagro (for 34 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 32 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 18 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 10 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 7 months)
    • CoreFiling (for 3 months)
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