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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2022

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

Debian project funding

No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work.

In June, we put aside 2254 EUR to fund Debian projects.

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 June, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 14.00h (out of 14.00h assigned).
  • Andreas Rönnquist did 14.50h (out of 14.50h assigned and 10.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 10.50h to the next month).
  • Anton Gladky did 16.00h (out of 16.00h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 16.00h (out of 0.00h assigned and 16.00h from previous period).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.00h (out of 18.00h assigned).
  • Dominik George did 1.83h (out of 6.00h assigned and 18.00h from previous period, thus carrying over 22.17h to the next month).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 30.25h (out of 9.25h assigned and 21.00h from previous period).
  • Enrico Zini did 8.00h (out of 9.50h assigned and 6.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 8.00h to the next month).
  • Markus Koschany did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did nothing (out of 12.00 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 27.50h (out of 11.75h assigned and 18.50h from previous period, thus carrying over 2.75h to the next month).
  • Stefano Rivera did 8.00h (out of 30.25h assigned, thus carrying over 20.75h to the next month).
  • Sylvain Beucler did 30.25h (out of 13.75h assigned and 16.50h from previous period).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 30.25h (out of 30.25h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 30.25 available hours, thus carrying them over to the next month).

Evolution of the situation

In June we released 27 DLAs.

This is a special month, where we have two releases (stretch and jessie) as ELTS and NO release as LTS. Buster is still handled by the security team and will probably be given in LTS hands at the beginning of the August. During this month we are updating the infrastructure, documentation and improve our internal processes to switch to a new release.
Many developers have just returned back from Debconf22, hold in Prizren, Kosovo! Many (E)LTS members could meet face-to-face and discuss some technical and social topics! Also LTS BoF took place, where the project was introduced (link to video).

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold. We are pleased to welcome Alter Way where their support of Debian is publicly acknowledged at the higher level, see this French quote of Alterway’s CEO.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2022

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A Debian LTS logo

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

Debian project funding

Two [1, 2] projects are in the pipeline now. Tryton project is in a final phase. Gradle projects is fighting with technical difficulties.

In May, we put aside 2233 EUR to fund Debian projects.

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 May, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

  • Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14h assigned).
  • Andreas Rönnquist did 14.5h (out of 25.0h assigned), thus carrying over 10.5h to June.
  • Anton Gladky did 19h (out of 19h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 8h (out of 11h assigned and 13h from April), thus carrying over 16h to June.
  • Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
  • Dominik George did 2h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 18h to June.
  • Enrico Zini did 9.5h (out of 16.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.5h to June.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 28h (out of 13.75h assigned and 35.25h from April), thus carrying over 21h to June.
  • Markus Koschany did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
  • Roberto C. Sánchez did 13.5h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over 18.5h to June.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 20h assigned and 20h from April), thus carrying over 16.5h to June.
  • Stefano Rivera did 5h in April and 14h in May (out of 17.5h assigned), thus anticipating 1.5h for June.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 35h (out of 19h assigned and 30h from April), thus carrying over 14h to June.

Evolution of the situation

In May we released 49 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 71 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 65 packages needing an update.

The number of paid contributors increased significantly, we are pleased to welcome our latest team members: Andreas Rönnquist, Dominik George, Enrico Zini and Stefano Rivera.

It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. We are preparing to overtake Debian 10 Buster for the next two years and to make this process as smooth as possible.

But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it’s time to subscribe!

You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2022

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A Debian LTS logo

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

Debian project funding

Two projects are currently in the pipeline: Gradle enterprise and Tryton update. Progress is quite slow on the Gradle one, there are technical difficulties. The tryton one was stalled because the developer had not enough time but seems to progress smoothly in the last weeks.

In April, we put aside 2635 EUR to fund Debian projects.

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

Evolution of the situation

In April we released 21 DLAs and we were glad to welcome a new customer with Alter Way.

The security tracker currently lists 72 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 71 packages needing an update.

It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org.

But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it’s time to subscribe!

You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian!

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

Debian 9 soon out of (free) security support

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Organizations that are still running Debian 9 servers should be aware that the security support of the Debian LTS team will end on June 30th 2022.

If upgrading to a newer Debian release is not an option for them, then they should consider subscribing to Freexian’s Extended LTS to get security support for the packages that they are using on their servers.

It’s worth pointing out that we made some important changes to Freexian’s Extended LTS offering :

  • we are now willing to support each Debian release for up to 10 years (so 5 years of ELTS support after the 5 initial years), provided that we have customers willing to pay the required amount.
  • we have changed our pricing scheme so that we can announce up-front the (increasing) cost over the 5 years of ELTS
  • we have dropped the requirement to subscribe to the Debian LTS sponsorship, though it’s still a good idea to contribute to the funding of that project to ensure that one’s packages are properly monitored/maintained during the LTS period

This means that we have again extended the life of Debian 8 Jessie, this time until June 30th 2025. And that Debian 9 Stretch – that will start its “extended” life on July 1st 2022 – can be maintained up to June 30th 2027.

Organizations using Debian 10 should consider sponsoring the Debian LTS team since security support for that Debian release will soon transition from the regular security team to the LTS team.

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