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

Individual reports

In December, about 175 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 20.5 hours (out of 13.5 hours allocated + 7 remaining hours).
• Balint Reczey did 10 hours (out of 13.5 hours allocated, thus keeping 2.5 hours for January).
• Ben Hutchings did 10 hours (out of 13.5 hours allocated + 2 hours remaining, thus keeping 5.5 extra hours for January).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 13.5 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 11 hours (out of 13.5 hours allocated, thus keeping 2.5 extra hours for January).
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 11 hours (out of 13.5 hours allocated, thus keeping 2.5 extra hours for January).
• Jonas Meurer did 5.25 hours (out of 12 hours allocated, thus keeping 6.75 extra hours for January).
• Markus Koschany did 13.5 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 13.5 hours.
• Raphaël Hertzog did 10 hours.
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 13.5 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 13.5 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not increase but a new silver sponsor is in the process of joining. We are only missing another silver sponsor (or two to four bronze sponsors) to reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full time position.

The security tracker currently lists 31 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 27. The situation improved a little bit compared to last month.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 14 months)
• GitHub (for 5 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 30 months)
• Blablacar (for 29 months)
• Linode LLC (for 19 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 8 months)
• Plat’Home (for 8 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 29 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 29 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 27 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 23 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 21 months)
• Dalenys (for 20 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 15 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 15 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 9 months)
• UR Communications BV (for 3 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 30 months)
• Evolix (for 30 months)
• Offensive Security (for 30 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 30 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 29 months)
• MyTux (for 29 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 27 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 26 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 25 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 24 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 24 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 23 months)
• NUMLOG (for 23 months)
• WinGo AG (for 22 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 19 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 16 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 14 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 11 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 6 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 6 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 5 months)
• RHX Srl (for 3 months)

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

Individual reports

In October, about 150 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 4 hours (out of 11 hours allocated, thus keeping 7 extra hours for December).
• Balint Reczey did 11 hours.
• Ben Hutchings did 9 hours (out of 11 hours allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
• Brian May did 11 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 11 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 11 hours.
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 11 hours.
• Jonas Meurer did 12.75 hours (out of 11 hours allocated + 1.75 hours remaining).
• Markus Koschany did 11 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 11.75 hours (out of 11 hours allocated + 0.75 hours remaining).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 11 hours.
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 11 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 11 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change this month and in fact we haven’t had any new sponsor since September. We still need a couple of supplementary sponsors to reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full time position.

The security tracker currently lists 40 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 36. We don’t seem to really catch up the small backlog. The reasons are not clear but I noticed that there are a few packages that take a lot of time due to the number of issues found with fuzzers. We also handle many issues that the security team ends up classifying as not worth an update because we add the package to dla-needed.txt before the security team has done its review and nobody checks afterwards.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 14 months)
• GitHub (for 5 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 30 months)
• Blablacar (for 29 months)
• Linode LLC (for 19 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 8 months)
• Plat’Home (for 8 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 29 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 29 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 27 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 23 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 21 months)
• Dalenys (for 20 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 15 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 15 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 9 months)
• UR Communications BV (for 3 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 30 months)
• Evolix (for 30 months)
• Offensive Security (for 30 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 30 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 29 months)
• MyTux (for 29 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 27 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 26 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 25 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 24 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 24 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 23 months)
• NUMLOG (for 23 months)
• WinGo AG (for 22 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 19 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 16 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 14 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 11 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 6 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 6 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 5 months)
• RHX Srl (for 3 months)

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

Individual reports

In October, about 175 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 13 hours.
• Balint Reczey did 7 hours (out of 13 hours allocated + 4.5 remaining, the extra hours have been given back).
• Ben Hutchings did 13.75 hours (out of 13 hours allocated + 0.75 remaining).
• Brian May did 13 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 13 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 13 hours.
• Guido Günther did 9 hours (out of 8h allocated + 1h remaining).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 12 hours.
• Jonas Meurer did 10.25 hours (out of 12 hours allocated, thus keeping 1.75 extra hours for November).
• Markus Koschany did 13 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 13.5 hours (out of 13 hours assigned + 1.25 remaining, thus keeping 0.75 extra hours).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 13 hours.
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 14.75 hours (out of 13h allocated + 1.75h remaining).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 13 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours did not change this month. We still need a couple of supplementary sponsors to reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full time position.

The security tracker currently lists 34 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 29. The situation improved slightly compared to last month.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 13 months)
• GitHub (for 4 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 29 months)
• Blablacar (for 28 months)
• Linode LLC (for 18 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 7 months)
• Plat’Home (for 7 months)
• UR Communications BV
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 28 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 28 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 26 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 22 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 20 months)
• Dalenys (for 19 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 14 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 14 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 8 months)
• maxcluster GmbH
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 29 months)
• Evolix (for 29 months)
• Offensive Security (for 29 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 29 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 28 months)
• MyTux (for 28 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 26 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 25 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 24 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 23 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 23 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 22 months)
• NUMLOG (for 22 months)
• WinGo AG (for 21 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 18 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 15 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 13 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 10 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 5 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 5 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 4 months)
• RHX Srl

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

Individual reports

In September, about 152 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Balint Reczey did 15 hours (out of 12.25 hours allocated + 7.25 remaining, thus keeping 4.5 extra hours for October).
• Ben Hutchings did 6 hours (out of 12.3 hours allocated + 1.45 remaining, he gave back 7h and thus keeps 9.75 extra hours for October).
• Brian May did 12.25 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 12.75 hours (out of 12.30 hours allocated + 0.45 hours remaining).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 1 hour (out of 12.3 hours allocated + 2.95 remaining) and gave back the unused hours.
• Guido Günther did 6 hours (out of 7h allocated, thus keeping 1 extra hour for October).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 12 hours.
• Jonas Meurer did 8 hours (out of 9 hours allocated, thus keeping 1 extra hour for October).
• Markus Koschany did 12.25 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 11 hours (out of 12.25 hours assigned thus keeping 1.25 extra hours).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 12.25 hours.
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 14 hours (out of 12.25h allocated + 3.75h remaining, thus keeping 2 extra hours).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 12.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours reached 172 hours per month thanks to maxcluster GmbH joining as silver sponsor and RHX Srl joining as bronze sponsor.

We only need a couple of supplementary sponsors now to reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full time position.

The security tracker currently lists 39 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 34. It’s a small bump compared to last month but almost all issues are affected to someone.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 12 months)
• GitHub (for 3 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 28 months)
• Blablacar (for 27 months)
• Linode LLC (for 17 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 6 months)
• Plat’Home (for 6 months)
• UR Communications BV
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 27 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 27 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 25 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 21 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 19 months)
• Dalenys (for 18 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 13 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 13 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 7 months)
• maxcluster GmbH
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 28 months)
• Evolix (for 28 months)
• Offensive Security (for 28 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 28 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 27 months)
• MyTux (for 27 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 25 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 25 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 23 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 22 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 22 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 21 months)
• NUMLOG (for 21 months)
• WinGo AG (for 21 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 17 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 14 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 12 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 9 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 4 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 4 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 4 months)
• RHX Srl