Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In April, we put aside 5775 EUR to fund Debian projects. There was no proposals for new projects received, thus we’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Please do not hesitate to submit a proposal, if there is a project that could benefit from the funding!

Debian LTS contributors

In April, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14h assigned and 12h from March), thus carrying over 12h to May.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 14h (out of 16h assigned and 2.5h from March), thus carrying over 4.5h to May.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Holger Levsen‘s work was coordinating/managing the LTS team, he did 10h (out of 12h assigned), and gave 2h back to the pool.
• Markus Koschany did 15.0h (out of 30h assigned), thus carrying over 15h to May.
• Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 12h assigned), thus carrying over 4.5h to May.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 9.5h (out of 32h assigned and 4.5h from March), thus carrying over 27h to May.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 60h (out of 60h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In April we released 33 DLAs and held a LTS team meeting using video conferencing.

The security tracker currently lists 53 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.

We are please to welcome VyOS as a new gold sponsor!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 68 months)
  • GitHub (for 59 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 36 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Blablacar (for 83 months)
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 79 months)
  • Linode (for 73 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 62 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 62 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 18 months)
  • Deveryware (for 5 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 84 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 83 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 77 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 69 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 69 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 63 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 53 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 47 months)
  • CINECA (for 36 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 30 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 20 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 18 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 12 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 12 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 6 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 3 months)
  • OVH US LLC
  • Tilburg University
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 84 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 84 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 81 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 81 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 79 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 78 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 78 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 77 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 77 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 77 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 73 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 68 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 65 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 60 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 60 months)
  • Tesorion (for 60 months)
  • Bearstech (for 51 months)
  • LiHAS (for 51 months)
  • People Doc (for 48 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 46 months)
  • Supagro (for 41 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 40 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 26 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 18 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 15 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 10 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 5 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In March, we put aside 3225 EUR to fund Debian projects but sadly nobody picked up anything, so this one of the many reasons Raphael posted as series of blog posts titled “Challenging times for Freexian”, posted in 4 parts on the last two days of March and the first two of April. [Part one, two, three and four]

So we’re still looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article!

Debian LTS contributors

In March, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 9.0h (out of 9h assigned and 12h from February), thus carrying over 12h to April.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 25.75h (out of 16h assigned and 12.25h from February), thus carrying over 2.5h to April.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 6h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6.h (out of 10h from February).
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 9h (out of 32h assigned and 21.5h from February) and gave 40h back, thus carrying over 4.5h to April.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 60h (out of 60h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In March we released 28 DLAs and held our second LTS team meeting for 2021 on IRC, with the next public IRC meeting coming up at the end of May.

At that meeting Holger announced that after 2.5 years he wanted to step back from his role helping Raphaël in coordinating/managing the LTS team. We would like to thank Holger for his continuous work on Debian LTS (which goes back to 2014) and are happy to report that we already found a successor which we will introduce in the upcoming April report from Freexian.

Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. For a last time, please contact Holger if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 42 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 28 packages needing an update.

We are also pleased to report that we got 4 new sponsors over the last 2 months : thanks to sipgate GmbH, OVH US LLC, Tilburg University and Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble !

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 67 months)
  • GitHub (for 58 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 35 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Blablacar (for 82 months)
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 78 months)
  • Linode (for 72 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 61 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 61 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 17 months)
  • Deveryware (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 83 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 82 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 77 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 68 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 68 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 62 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 52 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 46 months)
  • CINECA (for 35 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 30 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 19 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 17 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 11 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 11 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 5 months)
  • sipgate GmbH
  • OVH US LLC
  • Tilburg University
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 83 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 83 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 80 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 80 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 78 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 77 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 77 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 77 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 76 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 76 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 72 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 67 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 65 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 59 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 59 months)
  • Tesorion (for 59 months)
  • Bearstech (for 50 months)
  • LiHAS (for 50 months)
  • People Doc (for 47 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 45 months)
  • Supagro (for 40 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 39 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 25 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 17 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 14 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 9 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 4 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In February, we put aside 5475 EUR to fund Debian projects. The first project from this initiative was finished and thus Carles Pina was able to issue the first invoice!

We are looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams and contributors. Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In February, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 19.0h (out of 7h assigned and 12h from January).
• Ben Hutchings did 19h (out of 16h assigned and 15.25h from January), thus carrying over 12.25h to March.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so for now we assume they did nothing (out of 28h assigned plus 35.5h from January), thus is carrying over 63.5h for March.
• Holger Levsen did 6h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 23.25h (out of 23.25h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 7h (out of 12h assigned and 10h from January) and gave back 5h, thus carrying over 10h to March.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 10.5h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over 21.5h to March.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 60h (out of 60h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In February we released 28 DLAs (including one regression update) and we held an internal team meeting using video chat.
Finally, as every month we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 46 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 34 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 66 months)
• GitHub (for 56 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 34 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 81 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 77 months)
• Linode (for 71 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 60 months)
• Plat’Home (for 59 months)
• University of Oxford (for 16 months)
• Deveryware (for 3 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 82 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 81 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 75 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 67 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 67 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 61 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 51 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 45 months)
• CINECA (for 34 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 28 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 17 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 15 months)
• Platform.sh (for 10 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 9 months)
• Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 4 months)
• sipgate GmbH
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 82 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 82 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 79 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 78 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 77 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 76 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 76 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 75 months)
• NUMLOG (for 75 months)
• WinGo AG (for 74 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 71 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 66 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 63 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 58 months)
• Tesorion (for 58 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 57 months)
• Bearstech (for 49 months)
• LiHAS (for 49 months)
• People Doc (for 45 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 44 months)
• Supagro (for 39 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 38 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 24 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 16 months)
• SPiN AG (for 12 months)
• CoreFiling (for 8 months)
• Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 3 months)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

In January, we put aside 2175 EUR to fund Debian projects. As part of this Carles Pina i Estany started to work on better no-dsa support for the PTS which recently resulted in two merge requests which will hopefully be deployed soon.

We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In January, 13 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 9.0h (out of 14h assigned and 7h from December), thus carrying over 12h to February.
• Adrian Bunk did 14h (out of 26h assigned), thus carrying over 12h to February, which he then gave back.
• Ben Hutchings did 0.25h (out of 7h assigned and 8.5h from December), thus carrying over 15.25h to February.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 26h assigned plus 9.5h from December), thus is carrying over 35.5h for February.
• Holger Levsen did 6.5h coordinating/managing the LTS team..
• Markus Koschany did 36.75h (out of 26h assigned and 10.75h from December).
• Ola Lundqvist did 2.5h (out of 10.5h assigned and 11.5h from December) and gave back 9.5 hours, thus carrying over 10h to February.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 6h (out of 26h assigned), thus carrying over 20h to February, which he then gave back.
• Sylvain Beucler did 26h (out of 26h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 26h (out of 26h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 26h (out of 26h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In January we released 28 DLAs and held our first LTS team meeting for 2021 on IRC, with the next public IRC meeting coming up at the end of March. During that meeting Utkarsh shared that after he rolled out the python-certbot update (on December 8th 2020) the maintainer told him: “I just checked with Let’s Encrypt, and the stats show that you just saved 142,500 people from having their certificates start failing next month. I didn’t know LTS was still that used!”

Finally, we would like to welcome sipgate GmbH as a new silver sponsor. Also remember that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested.

The security tracker currently lists 43 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 23 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 65 months)
• GitHub (for 55 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 33 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 80 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 76 months)
• Linode (for 70 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 59 months)
• Plat’Home (for 58 months)
• University of Oxford (for 15 months)
• Deveryware
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 81 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 80 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 74 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 66 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 66 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 60 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 49 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 43 months)
• CINECA (for 33 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 27 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 16 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 14 months)
• Platform.sh (for 9 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 8 months)
• Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd.
• sipgate GmbH
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 81 months)
• Evolix (for 80 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 78 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 77 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 76 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 75 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 75 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 74 months)
• NUMLOG (for 74 months)
• WinGo AG (for 73 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 69 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 65 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 62 months)
• Tesorion (for 57 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 56 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 56 months)
• Bearstech (for 48 months)
• LiHAS (for 48 months)
• People Doc (for 44 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 42 months)
• Supagro (for 38 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 36 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 22 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 14 months)
• SPiN AG (for 11 months)
• CoreFiling (for 7 months)
• Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod