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

Individual reports

In July, about 224 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 12 hours (out of 10 hours allocated + 2 extra hours).
• Antoine Beaupré did 15 hours.
• Ben Hutchings did 10 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 3 extra hours, thus keeping 8 extra hours for August).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 17.25 hours (out of 30 hours allocated + 6.75 extra hours, thus keeping 19.5 extra hours for August).
• Holger Levsen did nothing (out of 8 hours allocated + 8 extra hours, thus keeping 16 extra hours for August).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 7.75 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 9.5 extra hours, but gave back the 16.75 remaining hours).
• Markus Koschany did 30 hours.
• Mike Gabriel did 8 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 4 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 4 remaining hours, thus keeping 8 extra hours for August).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 18 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 17.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 9.5 extra hours).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change.

The security tracker currently lists 51 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 43 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 34 months)
• GitHub (for 25 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 51 months)
• Blablacar (for 49 months)
• Linode (for 39 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 29 months)
• Plat’Home (for 28 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 50 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 47 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 44 months)
• Dalenys (for 40 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 36 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 35 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 29 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 23 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 19 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 13 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 10 months)
• CINECA (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 51 months)
• Evolix (for 50 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 50 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 49 months)
• MyTux (for 49 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 47 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 47 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 46 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 45 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 45 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 44 months)
• NUMLOG (for 44 months)
• WinGo AG (for 43 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 39 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 37 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 34 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 32 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 26 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 26 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 26 months)
• RHX Srl (for 23 months)
• Bearstech (for 18 months)
• LiHAS (for 18 months)
• People Doc (for 14 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 12 months)
• Supagro (for 8 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 6 months)
• TrapX Security (for 3 months)

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

Individual reports

In June, about 202 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 8 hours (out of 10 hours allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for July).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 12 extra hours).
• Ben Hutchings did 12 hours (out of 15 hours allocated, thus keeping 3 extra hours for July).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 17 hours (out of 23.75 hours allocated, thus keeping 6.75 extra hours for July).
• Holger Levsen did nothing (out of 8 hours allocated, thus keeping 8 extra hours for July).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 4.25 hours (out of 23.75 hours allocated, but gave back 10 hours, thus keeping 9.5 hours for July).
• Markus Koschany did 23.75 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 6 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 17.5 remaining hours, but gave back 15.5 unused hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for July).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 29.5 hours (out of 18 hours allocated + 11.5 extra hours).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 5.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 7 extra hours, thus keeping 9.5 extra hours for July).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 23.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours increased to 210 hours per month. We lost a silver sponsor but gained a new platinum sponsor with the Civil Infrastructure Platform project (hosted by the Linux Foundation, see their announce).

We are very happy to see the CIP project engage directly with the Debian project and try to work together to build the software stack for tomorrow’s world’s infrastructure.

The security tracker currently lists 57 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 52.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 33 months)
• GitHub (for 24 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 49 months)
• Blablacar (for 48 months)
• Linode (for 38 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 28 months)
• Plat’Home (for 27 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 49 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 46 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 43 months)
• Dalenys (for 39 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 35 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 34 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 28 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 22 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 18 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 12 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 9 months)
• CINECA
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 50 months)
• Evolix (for 49 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 49 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 48 months)
• MyTux (for 48 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 46 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 46 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 45 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 43 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 43 months)
• NUMLOG (for 43 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 42 months)
• WinGo AG (for 42 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 38 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 36 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 33 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 31 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 25 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 25 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 25 months)
• RHX Srl (for 22 months)
• Bearstech (for 17 months)
• LiHAS (for 17 months)
• People Doc (for 13 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 11 months)
• Supagro (for 7 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 5 months)
• TrapX Security

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

Individual reports

In May, about 202 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 6 hours (out of 10 hours allocated + 5 extra hours, he gave back the 9 remaining hours).
• Antoine Beaupré did nothing (out of 12 hours allocated, thus keeping 12 extra hours for June).
• Ben Hutchings did 15 hours.
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 33.75 hours (out of 24 hours allocated + 9.75 remaining hours).
• Holger Levsen did 6.5h (out of 32.75 remaining hours, the unused hours have been put back in the pool).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 24.25 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 24.25 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 9 hours (out of 14 hours allocated + 12.5 remaining hours, thus keeping 17.5 extra hours for June).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 6.5 hours (out of 18 hours allocated, thus keeping 11.5 extra hours for June).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 1 hour (out of 8 hours allocated, thus keeping 7 extra hours for June).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 24.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours increased to 190 hours per month thanks to a few new sponsors who joined to benefit from Wheezy’s Extended LTS support.

We are currently in a transition phase. Wheezy is no longer supported by the LTS team and the LTS team will soon take over security support of Debian 8 Jessie from Debian’s regular security team.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 32 months)
• GitHub (for 23 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 48 months)
• Blablacar (for 47 months)
• Linode (for 37 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 26 months)
• Plat’Home (for 26 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 48 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 47 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 45 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 42 months)
• Dalenys (for 38 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 33 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 33 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 27 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 21 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 17 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 11 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 8 months)
• CINECA
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 48 months)
• Evolix (for 48 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 48 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 47 months)
• MyTux (for 47 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 45 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 45 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 44 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 42 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 42 months)
• NUMLOG (for 42 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 41 months)
• WinGo AG (for 41 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 37 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 35 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 32 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 30 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 24 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 24 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 24 months)
• RHX Srl (for 21 months)
• Bearstech (for 16 months)
• LiHAS (for 16 months)
• People Doc (for 12 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 10 months)
• Supagro (for 6 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 4 months)
• TrapX Security

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

Individual reports

In March, about 183 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 5 hours (out of 10 hours allocated, thus keeping 5 extra hours for May).
• Antoine Beaupré did 12h.
• Ben Hutchings did 17 hours (out of 15h allocated + 2 remaining hours).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 16.25 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 11.5 hours (out of 16.25 hours allocated + 5 remaining hours, thus keeping 9.75 extra hours for May).
• Holger Levsen did nothing (out of 16.25 hours allocated + 16.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 32.75 extra hours for May). He did not get hours allocated for May and is expected to catch up.
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 20.5 hours (out of 16.25 hours allocated + 4.25 remaining hours).
• Markus Koschany did 16.25 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 11 hours (out of 14 hours allocated + 9.5 remaining hours, thus keeping 12.5 extra hours for May).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 7 hours (out of 16.25 hours allocated + 15.75 hours remaining, but immediately gave back the 25 remaining hours).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 8 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 16.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change. But a few sponsors interested in having more than 5 years of support should join LTS next month since this was a pre-requisite to benefit from extended LTS support. I did update Freexian’s website to show this as a benefit offered to LTS sponsors.

The security tracker currently lists 20 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 16. At two week from Wheezy’s end-of-life, the number of open issues is close to an historical low.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 31 months)
• GitHub (for 22 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 47 months)
• Blablacar (for 46 months)
• Linode (for 36 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 25 months)
• Plat’Home (for 25 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 46 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 46 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 44 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 41 months)
• Dalenys (for 37 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 32 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 32 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 26 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 20 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 16 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 10 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 7 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 47 months)
• Evolix (for 47 months)
• Offensive Security (for 47 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 47 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 46 months)
• MyTux (for 46 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 44 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 44 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 42 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 41 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 41 months)
• NUMLOG (for 41 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 40 months)
• WinGo AG (for 40 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 36 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 33 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 31 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 28 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 23 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 23 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 23 months)
• RHX Srl (for 20 months)
• Bearstech (for 14 months)
• LiHAS (for 14 months)
• People Doc (for 11 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 9 months)
• Supagro (for 4 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 3 months)