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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2017

January 12, 2018 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In December, about 142 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Antoine Beaupré did nothing (out of 4h allocated + 8.25h remaining, thus keeping 12.25h for January). He intends to catch up in January.
  • Ben Hutchings did 6 hours (out of 14h allocated, thus keeping 8 extra hours for January).
  • Brian May did 10 hours.
  • Chris Lamb did 14 hours.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 26.5 hours (out of 14 hours allocated + 13.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 1.25 hours for January).
  • Guido Günther did 13.5 hours (out of 11h allocated + 2.5 extra hours).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 14 hours.
  • Markus Koschany did 14 hours.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7 hours.
  • Raphaël Hertzog did 13 hours (out of 12h allocated + 2 extra hours, the remaining hour has been given back to the pool).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 19 hours (out of 14 hours allocated + 5 hours remaining).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 14 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change at 183 hours per month. It would be nice if we could continue to find new sponsors as the amount of work seems to be slowly growing too.

The security tracker currently lists 21 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 16 (we’re a bit behind in CVE triaging apparently). Both numbers show a significant drop compared to last month. Yet the number of DLA released was not larger than usual (30), instead it looks like December brought us fewer new security vulnerabilities to handle and at the same time we used this opportunity to handle lower priorities packages that were kept on the side for multiple months.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold (none this month).

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 27 months)
    • GitHub (for 18 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet (for 43 months)
    • Blablacar (for 42 months)
    • Linode (for 32 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 21 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 21 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • Domeneshop AS (for 42 months)
    • Université Lille 3 (for 42 months)
    • Trollweb Solutions (for 40 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 36 months)
    • Dalenys (for 33 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 28 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 28 months)
    • Sonus Networks (for 22 months)
    • maxcluster GmbH (for 16 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 12 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 6 months)
    • Vente-privee.com (for 3 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 43 months)
    • Evolix (for 43 months)
    • Offensive Security (for 43 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 43 months)
    • Freeside Internet Service (for 42 months)
    • MyTux (for 42 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 40 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 40 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 38 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 37 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 37 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 36 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 36 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 36 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 32 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 29 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 27 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 24 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 19 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 19 months)
    • Quarantainenet BV (for 19 months)
    • RHX Srl (for 16 months)
    • Bearstech (for 10 months)
    • LiHAS (for 10 months)
    • People Doc (for 7 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 5 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2017

December 15, 2017 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In October, about 144 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Antoine Beaupré did 8.5h (out of 13h allocated + 3.75h remaining, thus keeping 8.25h for December).
  • Ben Hutchings did 17 hours (out of 13h allocated + 4 extra hours).
  • Brian May did 10 hours.
  • Chris Lamb did 13 hours.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 14.5 hours (out of 13 hours allocated + 15.25 hours remaining, thus keeping 13.75 hours for December).
  • Guido Günther did 14 hours (out of 11h allocated + 5.5 extra hours, thus keeping 2.5h for December).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 13h.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did not request any work hours, but he had 3 hours left. He did not publish any report yet.
  • Markus Koschany did 14.75 hours (out of 13 allocated + 1.75 extra hours).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7h.
  • Raphaël Hertzog did 10 hours (out of 12h allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 32.5 hours (out of 13 hours allocated + 24.50 hours remaining, thus keeping 5 extra hours for November).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 13 hours.

About external support partners

You might notice that there is sometimes a significant gap between the number of distributed work hours each month and the number of sponsored hours reported in the “Evolution of the situation” section. This is mainly due to some work hours that are “externalized” (but also because some sponsors pay too late). For instance, since we don’t have Xen experts among our Debian contributors, we rely on credativ to do the Xen security work for us. And when we get an invoice, we convert that to a number of hours that we drop from the available hours in the following month. And in the last months, Xen has been a significant drain to our resources: 35 work hours made in September (invoiced in early October and taken off from the November hours detailed above), 6.25 hours in October, 21.5 hours in November. We also have a similar partnership with Diego Bierrun to help us maintain libav, but here the number of hours tend to be very low.

In both cases, the work done by those paid partners is made freely available for others under the original license: credativ maintains a Xen 4.1 branch on GitHub, Diego commits his work on the release/0.8 branch in the official git repository.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change at 183 hours per month. It would be nice if we could continue to find new sponsors as the amount of work seems to be slowly growing too.

The security tracker currently lists 55 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 35 (we’re a bit behind in CVE triaging apparently).

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 26 months)
    • GitHub (for 17 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet (for 42 months)
    • Blablacar (for 41 months)
    • Linode (for 31 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 20 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 20 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • Domeneshop AS (for 41 months)
    • Université Lille 3 (for 41 months)
    • Trollweb Solutions (for 39 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 35 months)
    • Dalenys (for 32 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 27 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 27 months)
    • Sonus Networks (for 21 months)
    • maxcluster GmbH (for 15 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 11 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 5 months)
    • Vente-privee.com
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 42 months)
    • Evolix (for 42 months)
    • Offensive Security (for 42 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 42 months)
    • Freeside Internet Service (for 41 months)
    • MyTux (for 41 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 39 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 39 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 37 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 36 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 36 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 35 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 35 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 35 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 31 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 28 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 26 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 23 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 18 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 18 months)
    • Quarantainenet BV (for 18 months)
    • RHX Srl (for 15 months)
    • Bearstech (for 9 months)
    • LiHAS (for 9 months)
    • People Doc (for 6 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 4 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2017

November 17, 2017 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In October, about 197 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Antoine Beaupré did 21h (out of 16h allocated + 8.75h remaining, thus keeping 3.75h for November).
  • Ben Hutchings did 20 hours (out of 15h allocated + 9 extra hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for November).
  • Brian May did 10 hours.
  • Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 7 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 1.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 15.25 hours for November).
  • Guido Günther did 6.5 hours (out of 11h allocated + 1 extra hour, thus keeping 5.5h for November).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 20h.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 2 hours (out of 5h allocated, thus keeping 3 hours for November).
  • Markus Koschany did 19 hours (out of 20.75h allocated, thus keeping 1.75 extra hours for November).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 7h allocated + 0.5 extra hours).
  • Raphaël Hertzog did 13.5 hours (out of 12h allocated + 1.5 extra hours).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 11 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 14.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 24.50 extra hours for November, he will give back remaining hours at the end of the month).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 20.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours increased slightly to 183 hours per month. With the increasing number of security issues to deal with, and with the number of open issues not really going down, I decided to bump the funding target to what amounts to 1.5 full-time position.

The security tracker currently lists 50 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 36 (we’re a bit behind in CVE triaging apparently).

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 25 months)
    • GitHub (for 16 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet (for 41 months)
    • Blablacar (for 40 months)
    • Linode (for 30 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 19 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 19 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • Domeneshop AS (for 40 months)
    • Université Lille 3 (for 40 months)
    • Trollweb Solutions (for 38 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 35 months)
    • Dalenys (for 31 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 26 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 26 months)
    • Sonus Networks (for 20 months)
    • maxcluster GmbH (for 14 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 10 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 4 months)
    • Vente-privee.com
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 41 months)
    • Evolix (for 41 months)
    • Offensive Security (for 41 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 41 months)
    • Freeside Internet Service (for 40 months)
    • MyTux (for 40 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 38 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 38 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 36 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 35 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 35 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 35 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 34 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 34 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 30 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 28 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 25 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 23 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 17 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 17 months)
    • Quarantainenet BV (for 17 months)
    • RHX Srl (for 14 months)
    • Bearstech (for 8 months)
    • LiHAS (for 8 months)
    • People Doc (for 5 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 3 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2017

October 20, 2017 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In August, about 170 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Antoine Beaupré did 7h (out of 15.75h allocated, thus keeping 8.75h for October).
  • Ben Hutchings did 12 hours (out of 15h allocated + 6 extra hours, thus keeping 9 extra hours for October).
  • Brian May did 10 hours.
  • Chris Lamb did 15.75 hours.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 27 hours (out of 15.75 hours allocated + 12.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 1.5 hours for October).
  • Guido Günther did 10 hours (out of 11h allocated, thus keeping one hour for October).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 15h.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 5 hours.
  • Markus Koschany did 15.75 hours.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 13.5h (out of 7h allocated + 7 extra hours, thus keeping 0.5 extra hours for October).
  • Raphaël Hertzog did 10.5 hours (out of 12h allocated, thus keeping 1.5 hours for October).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 10 hours (out of 15.75 hours allocated + 9 hours remaining, thus keeping 14.75 extra hours for October).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 15.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours is the same as last month. But we have a new sponsor in the pipe.

The security tracker currently lists 52 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 49. The number of packages with open issues decreased slightly compared to last month but we’re not yet back to the usual situation.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 24 months)
    • GitHub (for 15 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet (for 40 months)
    • Blablacar (for 39 months)
    • Linode (for 29 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 18 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 18 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • Domeneshop AS (for 40 months)
    • Université Lille 3 (for 39 months)
    • Trollweb Solutions (for 37 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 34 months)
    • Dalenys (for 30 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 25 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 25 months)
    • Sonus Networks (for 19 months)
    • maxcluster GmbH (for 13 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 9 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 3 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 40 months)
    • Evolix (for 40 months)
    • Offensive Security (for 40 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 40 months)
    • Freeside Internet Service (for 39 months)
    • MyTux (for 39 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 37 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 37 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 36 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 34 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 34 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 34 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 33 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 33 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 29 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 27 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 24 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 22 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 16 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 16 months)
    • Quarantainenet BV (for 16 months)
    • RHX Srl (for 13 months)
    • Bearstech (for 8 months)
    • LiHAS (for 7 months)
    • People Doc (for 4 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd
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