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:
- Abhijith PA did 14h out of 14h assigned
- Anton Gladky did 20h out of 20h assigned
- Ben Hutchings did 11h out of 16h assigned and 8h from March, thus carrying over 13h to May
- Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h assigned
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 18h (out of 53.25h assigned), thus carrying over 35.25h to May
- Jeremiah Foster did 9.5h out of 13.5h assigned, thus carrying over 4h to May
- Markus Koschany did 40 out of 40h assigned
- Roberto C. Sánchez did 18h carried out from March
- Sylvain Beucler did 20h out of 14.5h assigned and 25.5h from March, thus carrying over 20h to May
- Thorsten Alteholz did 40h out of 40h assigned
- Utkarsh Gupta did 23.25h out of 51.5h assigned and 1.75h from March, thus carrying over 30h to May
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.
- Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 80 months)
- GitHub (for 71 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 48 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 91 months)
- Linode (for 85 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 75 months)
- Plat’Home (for 74 months)
- University of Oxford (for 30 months)
- Deveryware (for 17 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 12 months)
- EDF SA
- Silver sponsors:
- The Positive Internet Company (for 97 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 96 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 90 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 82 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 81 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 75 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 65 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 59 months)
- CINECA (for 49 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 43 months)
- Cloudways Ltd (for 32 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 30 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 24 months)
- Platform.sh (for 24 months)
- Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 18 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 15 months)
- Tilburg University (for 14 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 13 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 5 months)
- Telecats BV (for 3 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K.
- Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 96 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 96 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 93 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 93 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 92 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 91 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 91 months)
- Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 90 months)
- NUMLOG (for 90 months)
- WinGo AG (for 89 months)
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 85 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 80 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 78 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 72 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 72 months)
- Tesorion (for 72 months)
- Bearstech (for 64 months)
- LiHAS (for 64 months)
- People Doc (for 60 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 58 months)
- Supagro (for 54 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 52 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 38 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 30 months)
- SPiN AG (for 27 months)
- CoreFiling (for 23 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 17 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 14 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 9 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 8 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 7 months)
- Alter Way
