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

Individual reports

In May, 66.25 work hours have been dispatched among 8 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 10.5 hours.
• Guido Günther did 6 hours (of 8 assigned, he will catch up the remaining hours over June).
• Holger Levsen did 2 hours (of 5 hours assigned, the remaining hours have been dispatched to other contributors).
• Mike Gabriel did 8 hours.
• Raphaël Hertzog did 10.25 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 10.25 hours.
• Scott Kitterman did 4 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 10.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

June has seen a nice increase in terms of sponsored hours (73.50 hours per month) and July shall continue this trend. All the sponsors that are with us since day 0 have just renewed their support (after the first year): many thanks to David Ayers – IntarS Austria, Domeneshop AS, Evolix, Offensive Security and Seznam.cz, a.s. !

Our first milestone of funding the equivalent of a half-time position in now within reach, we only need 9 more hours of sponsored work per month. At the current rate, that makes 2 or 3 new “average” sponsors.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation continued to improve: the dla-needed.txt file lists 19 packages awaiting an update (9 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 36 affected packages in total (24 less than last month).

If we keep getting more support, we will be in a good position to extend the coverage that we will offer for Wheezy LTS (notably for virtualization related packages) and we will also be able to consider switching to MySQL 5.5 for Squeeze LTS since MySQL 5.1 is no longer supported upstream (and other similar requests that tend to pop up as more and more software reach their upstream end-of-life).

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors of the month are in bold.

• Gold sponsors:
• Linode LLC
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• Blablacar
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Domeneshop AS
• Gandi SAS
• Rentabiliweb Group
• Trollweb Solutions
• University of Luxembourg
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA
• Evolix
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Gree, Inc.
• Greenbone Networks GmbH
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• NUMLOG
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.
• WinGo AG

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

Individual reports

In April, 81.75 work hours have been dispatched among 5 paid contributors (20.75 hours where unused hours of Ben and Holger that were re-dispatched to other contributors). Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 16 hours.
• Holger Levsen did 3 hours (of 5 hours assigned).
• Mike Gabriel did 8 hours.
• Raphaël Hertzog did 26.25 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 26.5 hours.

Evolution of the situation

May has seen a small increase in terms of sponsored hours (66.25 hours per month) and June is going to do even better with at least a new gold sponsor. We will have no problems sustaining the increased workload it implies since three Debian developers joined the team of contributors paid by Freexian (Antoine Beaupré, Santiago Ruano Rincón, Scott Kitterman).

The Jessie release probably shed some light on the Debian LTS project since we announced that Jessie will benefit from 5 years of support. Let’s hope that the trend will continue in the following months and that we reach our first milestone of funding the equivalent of a half-time position.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is a bit contrasted: the dla-needed.txt file lists 28 packages awaiting an update (12 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 60 affected packages in total (4 more than last month). The extra hours helped to make a good stride in the packages awaiting an update but there are many new vulnerabilities waiting to be triaged.

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors of the month are in bold.

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• Blablacar
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Domeneshop AS
• Gandi SAS
• Rentabiliweb Group
• Trollweb Solutions
• University of Luxembourg
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• Evolix
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Gree, Inc.
• Greenbone Networks GmbH
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• NUMLOG
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.
• WinGo AG

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

Individual reports

In March, 61 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did only 11.25h.
• Holger Levsen did only 4.5h during which he worked on the security tracker JSON output (see #761859) and on DLA-169-1 (fixing 2 CVE on axis).
• Raphaël Hertzog
• Thorsten Alteholz

The remaining hours of Ben and Holger have been redispatched to other contributors for April (during which Mike Gabriel joins the set of paid contributors). BTW, if you want to join the team of paid contributors, read this and apply!

Evolution of the situation

April has seen no change in terms of sponsored hours but we have two new sponsors in the pipe and May should hopefully have a few more sponsored hours.

For the need of a LTS presentation I gave during the Mini-DebConf Lyon I prepared a small graph showing the evolution of the hours sponsored through Freexian:

The growth is rather slow and it will take years to reach our goal of funding the equivalent a full time position (176 hours per month). Even the intermediary goal of funding the equivalent of a half-time position (88h/month) is more than 6 months away given the current growth rate. But the perspective of Wheezy-LTS should help us to convince more organizations and hopefully we will reach that goal sooner. If you want to sponsor the project, check out this page.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks similar to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 40 packages awaiting an update (exactly like last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 56 affected packages in total (2 less than last month).

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors of the month are in bold (none this month).

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Blablacar
• Domeneshop AS
• Evolix
• Gandi SAS
• Trollweb Solutions
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Gree, Inc.
• Greenbone Networks GmbH
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• NUMLOG
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.
• WinGo AG