Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In February, 226 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:- Abhijith PA gave back 12 out of his assigned 14h, thus he is carrying over 2h for March.
- Ben Hutchings did 19.25h (out of 20h assigned), thus carrying over 0.75h to March.
- Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
- Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
- Dylan Aïssi did 5.5h (out of 4h assigned and 1.5h from January).
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 29h (out of 20h assigned and 15.75h from January), thus carrying over 6.75h to March.
- Hugo Lefeuvre gave back the 12h he got assigned.
- Markus Koschany did 10h (out of 20h assigned and 8.75h from January), thus carrying over 18.75h to March.
- Mike Gabriel did 5.75h (out of 20h assigned) and gave 12h back to the pool, thus he is carrying over 2.25h to March.
- Ola Lundqvist did 10h (out of 8h assigned and 4.5h from January), thus carrying over 2.5h to March.
- Roberto C. Sánchez did 20.25h (out of 20h assigned and 13h from January) and gave back 12.75h to the pool.
- Sylvain Beucler did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
- Thorsten Alteholz did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
- Utkarsh Gupta did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
Evolution of the situation
February began as rather calm month and the fact that more contributors have given back unused hours is an indicator of this calmness and also an indicator that contributing to LTS has become more of a routine now, which is good.
In the second half of February Holger Levsen (from LTS) and Salvatore Bonaccorso (from the Debian Security Team) met at SnowCamp in Italy and discussed tensions and possible improvements from and for Debian LTS.The security tracker currently lists 25 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 21 packages needing an update.
Thanks to our sponsors
New sponsors are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 54 months)
- GitHub (for 44 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 22 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- Blablacar (for 69 months)
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 65 months)
- Linode (for 59 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 48 months)
- Plat’Home (for 47 months)
- University of Oxford (for 4 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- The Positive Internet Company (for 70 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 69 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 63 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 55 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 55 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 49 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 38 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 32 months)
- CINECA (for 22 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 16 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 5 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 3 months)
- Bronze sponsors:
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 70 months)
- Evolix (for 69 months)
- MyTux (for 69 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 67 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 66 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 65 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 64 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 64 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 63 months)
- NUMLOG (for 63 months)
- WinGo AG (for 62 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 59 months)
- Sig-I/O (for 56 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 54 months)
- Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 51 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 46 months)
- Tesorion (for 46 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 45 months)
- Bearstech (for 37 months)
- LiHAS (for 37 months)
- People Doc (for 33 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 32 months)
- Supagro (for 27 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 25 months)
- TrapX Security (for 22 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 12 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 4 months)
- SPiN AG
Just like we did for Debian 7 Wheezy, some of the 