Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In June, 73.50 work hours have been dispatched among 7 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
- Ben Hutchings did 14.75 hours.
- Guido Günther did 10 hours.
- Mike Gabriel did 8 hours.
- Raphaël Hertzog did 14.5 hours.
- Santiago Ruano Rincón did 14.75 hours.
- Scott Kitterman did 4 hours.
- Thorsten Alteholz did 14.5 hours.
Evolution of the situation
July has seen a nice increase in terms of sponsored hours (79.50 hours per month) but the trend is unlikely to continue for the next month, worse it might be negative. While most sponsors who joined us last year in July will renew their support, there are a few where I have no confirmation yet. Many thanks to those who confirmed early: Université Lille 3, MyTux.
Our first milestone of funding the equivalent of a half-time position is unlikely to be reached before DebConf or even this summer. If you want to prove me wrong, it’s time to get in touch with your management and convince your company to contribute a small amount.
In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is similar to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 24 packages awaiting an update (5 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 33 affected packages in total (3 less than last month).
Thanks to our sponsors
There are no new sponsors this month. But I decided to include the number of months that the sponsor has been with us. Since we value long-lasting relations, it seemed quite natural to add this.
- Gold sponsors:
- The Positive Internet (for 13 months already)
- Linode LLC
- Silver sponsors:
- David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 13 months already)
- Blablacar (for 12 months already)
- Domeneshop AS (for 12 months already)
- Université Lille 3 (for 12 months already)
- Trollweb Solutions (for 10 months already)
- Gandi SAS (for 7 months already)
- University of Luxembourg (for 4 months already)
- Rentabiliweb Group
- Bronze sponsors:
- Offensive Security (for 13 months already)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 13 months already)
- Evolix (for 12 months already)
- Freeside Internet Service (for 12 months already)
- MyTux (for 12 months already)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 10 months already)
- Nantes Métropole (for 10 months already)
- Intevation GmbH (for 9 months already)
- Daevel SARL (for 8 months already)
- FOSSter (for 8 months already)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 7 months already)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 7 months already)
- Gree, Inc. (for 6 months already)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 6 months already)
- NUMLOG (for 6 months already)
- WinGo AG (for 5 months already)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA
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