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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2020

July 23, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In June, 202.00 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 8h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 6h to July.
  • Ben Hutchings did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 4h from his backlog of 58.25h from May, thus carrying over 54.25h to July.
  • Markus Koschany did 60h (out of 48.25h backlog from May and 11.75h extra hours manually assigned).
  • Mike Gabriel did 8h (out of 8h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 12.5h (out of 12h assigned and 7.5h from May), thus carrying over 7h to July.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 28.75h (out of 30h assigned), thus carrying over 1.25h to July.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 30h (out of 30h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

June was the last month of Jessie LTS which ended on 2020-06-20. If you still need to run Jessie somewhere, please read the post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years.
So, as (Jessie) LTS is dead, long live the new LTS, Stretch LTS! Stretch has received its last point release, so regular LTS operations can now continue.
Accompanying this, for the first time, we have prepared a small survey about our users and contributors, who they are and why they are using LTS. Filling out the survey should take less than 10 minutes. We would really appreciate if you could participate in the survey online! On July 27th 2020 we will close the survey, so please don’t hesitate and participate now! After that, there will be a followup with the results.

The security tracker for Stretch LTS currently lists 29 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 44 packages needing an update in Stretch LTS.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

We welcome CoreFiling this month!
  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 58 months)
    • GitHub (for 48 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 26 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 73 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 69 months)
    • Linode (for 63 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 52 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 51 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 8 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 74 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 73 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 67 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 59 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 59 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 53 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 42 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 36 months)
    • CINECA (for 26 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 20 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 9 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 7 months)
    • Platform.sh
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 74 months)
    • Evolix (for 73 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 71 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 70 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 69 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 68 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 68 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 67 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 67 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 66 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 63 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 58 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 55 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 50 months)
    • Tesorion (for 50 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 49 months)
    • Bearstech (for 41 months)
    • LiHAS (for 41 months)
    • People Doc (for 37 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 36 months)
    • Supagro (for 31 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 29 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 16 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 8 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 4 months)
    • CoreFiling

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2020

June 24, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In May, 198 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 18.0h (out of 14h assigned and 4h from April).
  • Anton Gladky gave back the assigned 10h and declared himself inactive.
  • Ben Hutchings did 19.75h (out of 17.25h assigned and 2.5h from April).
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
  • Dylan Aïssi gave back the assigned 6h and declared himself inactive.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not manage to work LTS in May and now reported 5h work in April (out of 17.25h assigned plus 46h from April), thus is carrying over 58.25h for June.
  • Markus Koschany did 25.0h (out of 17.25h assigned and 56h from April), thus carrying over 48.25h to June.
  • Mike Gabriel did 14.50h (out of 8h assigned and 6.5h from April).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 11.5h (out of 12h assigned and 7h from April), thus carrying over 7.5h to June.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In May 2020 we had our second (virtual) contributors meeting on IRC, Logs and minutes are available online. Then we also moved our ToDo from the Debian wiki to the issue tracker on salsa.debian.org.
Sadly three contributors went inactive in May: Adrian Bunk, Anton Gladky and Dylan Aïssi. And while there are currently still enough active contributors to shoulder the existing work, we like to use this opportunity that we are always looking for new contributors. Please mail Holger if you are interested.
Finally, we like to remind you for a last time, that the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than a month!
In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian.

The security tracker currently lists 6 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 30 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold. With the upcoming start of Jessie ELTS, we are welcoming a few new sponsors and others should join soon.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 57 months)
    • GitHub (for 47 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 25 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 72 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 68 months)
    • Linode (for 62 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 51 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 50 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 7 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 73 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 72 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 66 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 58 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 58 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 52 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 41 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 36 months)
    • CINECA (for 25 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 19 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 8 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 6 months)
    • Platform.sh
    • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Evolix (for 73 months)
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 73 months)
    • MyTux (for 72 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 70 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 69 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 68 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 67 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 67 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 66 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 66 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 65 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 62 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 59 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 57 months)
    • Adfinis AG (for 54 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 49 months)
    • Tesorion (for 49 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 48 months)
    • Bearstech (for 40 months)
    • LiHAS (for 40 months)
    • People Doc (for 36 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 35 months)
    • Supagro (for 30 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 29 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 15 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 7 months)
    • SPiN AG (for 3 months)

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2020

May 23, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In April, 284.5 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 4h to May.
  • Adrian Bunk did nothing (out of 28.75h assigned), thus is carrying over 28.75h for May.
  • Ben Hutchings did 26h (out of 20h assigned and 8.5h from March), thus carrying over 2.5h to May.
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Dylan Aïssi did 6h (out of 6h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 28.75h assigned plus 17.25h from March), thus is carrying over 46h for May.
  • Markus Koschany did 11.5h (out of 28.75h assigned and 38.75h from March), thus carrying over 56h to May.
  • Mike Gabriel did 1.5h (out of 8h assigned), thus carrying over 6.5h to May.
  • Ola Lundqvist did 13.5h (out of 12h assigned and 8.5h from March), thus carrying over 7h to May.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 24h (out of 24h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In April we dispatched more hours than ever and another was new too, we had our first (virtual) contributors meeting on IRC! Logs and minutes are available and we plan to continue doing IRC meetings every other month.
Sadly one contributor decided to go inactive in April, Hugo Lefeuvre.
Finally, we like to remind you, that the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than two months!
In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian.

The security tracker currently lists 4 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 25 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 56 months)
    • GitHub (for 46 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 24 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 71 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 67 months)
    • Linode (for 61 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 50 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 49 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 6 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 72 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 71 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 65 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 57 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 57 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 51 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 40 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 34 months)
    • CINECA (for 24 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 18 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 7 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 5 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 72 months)
    • Evolix (for 71 months)
    • MyTux (for 71 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 69 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 68 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 67 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 66 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 66 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 65 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 65 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 64 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 61 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 58 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 56 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 53 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 48 months)
    • Tesorion (for 48 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 47 months)
    • Bearstech (for 39 months)
    • LiHAS (for 39 months)
    • People Doc (for 35 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 33 months)
    • Supagro (for 29 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 27 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 14 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 6 months)
    • SPiN AG

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2020

April 16, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

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

Individual reports

In March, 252 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 16.0h (out of 14h assigned and 2h from February).
  • Ben Hutchings did 12.25h (out of 20h assigned and 0.75h from February), thus carrying over 8.5h to April.
  • Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Dylan Aïssi did 6h (out of 6h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 19.5h (out of 30h assigned and 6.75h from February), thus carrying over 17.25h to April.
  • Hugo Lefeuvre gave back the 12h he got assigned.
  • Markus Koschany did 10h (out of 30h assigned and 18.75h from February), thus carrying over 38.75h to April.
  • Mike Gabriel did 10.25h (out of 8h assigned and 2.25h from February).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 6h (out of 12h assigned and 2.5h from February), thus carrying over 8.5h to April.
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 6.25h (out of 8h assigned), and gave back the remaining 1.75h.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 24h (out of 24h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

March was a strange month for many people all over the globe. Here we’ll just express our hopes that you are and will be well!

LTS gained a new contributor in March, Anton Gladky, however he then decided to become active later this year. Similarly Hugo Lefeuvre notified us that he’ll be inactive in April.

In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian. Hurry up: the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than three months!

The security tracker currently lists 25 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 23 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

  • Platinum sponsors:
    • TOSHIBA (for 55 months)
    • GitHub (for 45 months)
    • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 22 months)
  • Gold sponsors:
    • Blablacar (for 70 months)
    • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 65 months)
    • Linode (for 59 months)
    • Babiel GmbH (for 49 months)
    • Plat’Home (for 48 months)
    • University of Oxford (for 4 months)
  • Silver sponsors:
    • The Positive Internet Company (for 71 months)
    • Domeneshop AS (for 70 months)
    • Nantes Métropole (for 64 months)
    • Univention GmbH (for 56 months)
    • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 56 months)
    • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 49 months)
    • Exonet B.V. (for 39 months)
    • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 33 months)
    • CINECA (for 23 months)
    • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 17 months)
    • Cloudways Ltd (for 6 months)
    • Dinahosting SL (for 4 months)
  • Bronze sponsors:
    • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 71 months)
    • Evolix (for 70 months)
    • MyTux (for 70 months)
    • Intevation GmbH (for 67 months)
    • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 67 months)
    • Daevel SARL (for 66 months)
    • Bitfolk LTD (for 65 months)
    • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 65 months)
    • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 64 months)
    • NUMLOG (for 64 months)
    • WinGo AG (for 63 months)
    • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 59 months)
    • Sig-I/O (for 57 months)
    • Entr’ouvert (for 54 months)
    • Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 52 months)
    • GNI MEDIA (for 46 months)
    • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 46 months)
    • Tesorion (for 46 months)
    • Bearstech (for 38 months)
    • LiHAS (for 38 months)
    • People Doc (for 34 months)
    • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 32 months)
    • Supagro (for 28 months)
    • Demarcq SAS (for 26 months)
    • TrapX Security (for 23 months)
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 12 months)
    • TouchWeb SAS (for 4 months)
    • SPiN AG
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