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

Individual reports

In June, 158.25 work hours have been dispatched among 11 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré has been allocated 4 hours but did not publish his report yet.
• Balint Reczey did 3 hours (out of 16 hours allocated, thus keeping 13 extra hours for July).
• Ben Hutchings did 19 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 5 remaining, keeping 1 extra hour for July).
• Brian May did 15 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 16 hours.
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 19.75 hours (out of 18.75 hours allocated + 1 remaining).
• Ola Lundqvist did 10 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 15.5 hours (out of 18.75h allocated + 8 remaining, thus keeping 11.25 extra hours for July).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 18.75 hours.

DebConf 16 Presentation

If you want to know more about how the LTS project is organized, you can watch the presentation I gave during DebConf 16 in Cape Town.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours increased a little bit at 135 hours per month thanks to 3 new sponsors (Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS, Quarantainenet BV, GNI MEDIA). Our funding goal is getting closer but it’s not there yet.

The security tracker currently lists 40 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file lists 38 packages awaiting an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 9 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 25 months)
• Blablacar (for 24 months)
• Linode LLC (for 14 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 3 months)
• Plat’Home
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 24 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 24 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 22 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 18 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 16 months)
• Dalenys (for 15 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 10 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 10 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 25 months)
• Evolix (for 25 months)
• Offensive Security (for 25 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 25 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 24 months)
• MyTux (for 24 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 22 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 21 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 20 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 19 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 19 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 18 months)
• NUMLOG (for 18 months)
• WinGo AG (for 17 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 14 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 11 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 9 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 6 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS
• Quarantainenet BV
• GNI MEDIA

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

Individual reports

In May, 166 work hours have been dispatched among 9 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 20h.
• Ben Hutchings did 10 hours (out of 15 hours allocated, keeping 5 extra hours for June).
• Brian May did 15 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Guido Günther did 17.25 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 9.25 remaining hours).
• Markus Koschany did 30 hours (out of 31 hours allocated, thus keeping one extra hour for June).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 20 hours (out of 20h allocated + 8 remaining, thus keeping 8 extra hours for June).
• 8 hours that were initially affected to Scott Kitterman have been put back in the June pool after he resigned.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 31 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours stayed the same over May but will likely increase a little bit the next month as we have two new Bronze sponsors being processed.

The security tracker currently lists 36 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file lists 36 packages awaiting an update.

Despite the higher than usual number of work hours dispatched in May, we still have more open CVE than we used to have at the end of the squeeze LTS period. So more support is always needed…

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 8 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 24 months)
• Blablacar (for 23 months)
• Linode LLC (for 13 months)
• Babiel GmbH
• Plat’Home
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 23 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 23 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 21 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 17 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 15 months)
• Dalenys (for 13 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 9 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 9 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 24 months)
• Offensive Security (for 24 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 24 months)
• Evolix (for 23 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 23 months)
• MyTux (for 23 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 21 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 20 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 19 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 18 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 18 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 17 months)
• NUMLOG (for 17 months)
• WinGo AG (for 16 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 13 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 10 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 8 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 5 months)

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

Individual reports

In April, 116.75 work hours have been dispatched among 9 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 16h.
• Ben Hutchings did 12.25 hours (out of 15 hours allocated + 5.50 extra hours remaining, he returned the remaining 8.25h to the pool).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did nothing (instead of the 16 hours he was allocated, his hours have been redispatched to other contributors over May).
• Guido Günther did 2 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 3.25 remaining hours, leaving 9.25 extra hours for May).
• Markus Koschany did 16 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 7.50 hours (out of 12h allocated + 3.50 remaining, thus keeping 8 extra hours for May).
• Scott Kitterman posted a report for 6 hours made in March but did nothing in April. His 18 remaining hours have been returned to the pool. He decided to stop doing LTS work for now.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 15.75 hours.

Many contributors did not use all their allocated hours. This is partly explained by the fact that in April Wheezy was still under the responsibility of the security team and they were not able to drive updates from start to finish.

In any case, this means that they have more hours available over May and since the LTS period started, they should hopefully be able to make a good dent in the backlog of security updates.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours reached a new record with 132 hours per month, thanks to two new gold sponsors (Babiel GmbH and Plat’Home). Plat’Home’s sponsorship was aimed to help us maintain Debian 7 Wheezy on armel and armhf (on top of already supported amd64 and i386). Hopefully the trend will continue so that we can reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full-time position.

The security tracker currently lists 45 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file lists 44 packages awaiting an update.

This is a bit more than the 15-20 open entries that we used to have at the end of the Debian 6 LTS period.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 7 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 23 months)
• Blablacar (for 22 months)
• Linode LLC (for 12 months)
• Babiel GmbH
• Plat’Home
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 22 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 22 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 20 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 16 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 14 months)
• Dalenys (for 13 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 8 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 8 months)
• Sonus Networks
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 23 months)
• Evolix (for 23 months)
• Offensive Security (for 23 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 23 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 22 months)
• MyTux (for 22 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 20 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 19 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 18 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 17 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 17 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 16 months)
• NUMLOG (for 16 months)
• WinGo AG (for 15 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 12 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 9 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 7 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 4 months)

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

Individual reports

In February, 111.75 work hours have been dispatched among 10 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré did 8h.
• Ben Hutchings did 12.75 hours (out of 11 hours allocated + 7.25 extra hours remaining, meaning that he still has 5.50 extra hours to do over April).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 7 hours (instead of the 14.25 hours he was allocated +, compensating the extra hours he did last month).
• Damyan Ivanov did nothing out of the 7.25 remaining hours he had, he opted to give them back and come back to LTS work later.
• Guido Günther did 13 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 4.25 remaining hours, leaving 3.25 extra hours for April).
• Markus Koschany did 14.25 hours.
• Mike Gabriel did nothing and opted to give back the 8 hours allocated. He will stop LTS work for now as he has other projects taking all his time.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 10 hours (out of 12h allocated + 1.50 remaining, thus keeping 3.50 extra hours for April).
• Scott Kitterman did a few hours but was not able to provide his report in time due to sickness. His next report will cover two months.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours started to increase for April (116.75 hours, thanks to Sonus Networks) and should increase even further for May (with a new Gold sponsor currently joining us, Babiel GmbH). Hopefully the trend will continue so that we can reach our objective of funding the equivalent of a full-time position.

At the end of the month the LTS team will be fully responsible of all Debian 7 Wheezy updates. For now paid contributors are still helping the security team by fixing packages that were fixed in squeeze already but that are still outstanding in wheezy.

They are also looking for ways to ensure that some of the most complicated packages can be supported over the wheezy LTS timeframe. It is likely that we will seek external help (possibly from credativ which is already handling support of PostgreSQL) for the maintenance of Xen and that some other packages (like libav, vlc, maybe qemu?) will be upgraded to newer versions which are still maintained (either upstream or in Debian Jessie by the Debian maintainers).

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 6 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 22 months)
• Blablacar (for 21 months)
• Linode LLC (for 11 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 21 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 21 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 19 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 15 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 13 months)
• Dalenys (for 11 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 7 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 7 months)
• Sonus Networks
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 22 months)
• Offensive Security (for 22 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 22 months)
• Evolix (for 21 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 21 months)
• MyTux (for 21 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 19 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 18 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 17 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 16 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 16 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 15 months)
• NUMLOG (for 15 months)
• WinGo AG (for 14 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 11 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 8 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 6 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 3 months)