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

Individual reports

In November, 114.50 work hours have been dispatched among 8 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 5 hours only (out of 15 hours allocated + 5 extra hours remaining, meaning that he has 15 extra hours to do over December).
• Chris Lamb did 13 hours (12h allocated + 1h remaining).
• Guido Günther did 10 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 4 remaining, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
• Mike Gabriel did 6.5 hours only (out of 8 hours allocated + 8 hours remaining, the 9.5 unused extra hours have been dispatched to others for December).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 21.25 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 19 hours (out of 21h allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for December).
• Scott Kitterman did 8 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 21.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

We lost one hour of funding for December due to a sponsor not renewing, and we don’t have any new sponsor lined up right now. There’s another sponsor who will reduce his sponsorship starting with 2016.

While the situation is relatively healthy right now, we should continue the efforts to find new sponsors, both to ensure we can cover more software in wheezy and to better share the costs: having many small sponsors is more resilient than relying on a few big ones. And we still haven’t reached our second goal of funding the equivalent of a full-time position.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is close to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 19 packages awaiting an update (2 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 22 affected packages in total (1 less than last month).

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 18 months already)
• Blablacar (for 17 months already)
• Linode LLC (for 7 months already)
• Silver sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 18 months already)
• Domeneshop AS (for 17 months already)
• Université Lille 3 (for 17 months already)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 15 months already)
• Gandi SAS (for 12 months already)
• University of Luxembourg (for 9 months already)
• Rentabiliweb Group (for 7 months already)
• Univention GmbH (for 3 months already)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 3 months already)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Offensive Security (for 18 months already)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 18 months already)
• Evolix (for 17 months already)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 17 months already)
• MyTux (for 17 months already)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 15 months already)
• Intevation GmbH (for 14 months already)
• Daevel SARL (for 13 months already)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 12 months already)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 12 months already)
• Gree, Inc. (for 11 months already)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 11 months already)
• NUMLOG (for 11 months already)
• WinGo AG (for 10 months already)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 6 months already)
• Sig-I/O (for 4 months already)
• Entr’ouvert

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

Individual reports

In September, 85.50 work hours have been dispatched among 8 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 14 hours (13.5h allocated, thus only catching up 0.5 hours out of the 5.5 extra hours he had left from former month).
• Chris Lamb did 11 hours (12h allocated, he will catch up later).
• Guido Günther did 4 hours (out of 8 hours allocated, thus keeping 4 extra hours for November).
• Mike Gabriel did nothing (out of 8 hours allocated, he will catch up in November).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 13.25 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 13.5 hours.
• Scott Kitterman did 8 hours (4 hours allocated and 4 hours remaining from September)
• Thorsten Alteholz did 13.25 hours.

Evolution of the situation

November crossed a new record with 114.5 hours funded. This is mainly thanks to our first Platinum sponsor: TOSHIBA (through Toshiba Software Development Vietnam). They don’t know yet if they can sponsor us in the long term (they hope so), but it’s still a nice news as we jumped from 50% to 65% of the objective of the equivalent of a full-time position with a single new sponsor.

Currently no change is expected for next month as we don’t have any other new sponsor in the process of joining us.

We still need more support to be able to support all the packages we could not afford to support during the squeeze cycle. We are currently discussing which package we can or cannot support on the LTS list, see the thread Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS for the current situation.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is close to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 21 packages awaiting an update (6 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 23 affected packages in total (exactly like last month).

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 17 months already)
• Blablacar (for 16 months already)
• Linode LLC (for 6 months already)
• Silver sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 17 months already)
• Domeneshop AS (for 16 months already)
• Université Lille 3 (for 16 months already)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 14 months already)
• Gandi SAS (for 11 months already)
• University of Luxembourg (for 8 months already)
• Rentabiliweb Group (for 6 months already)
• Univention GmbH
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne
• Bronze sponsors:
• Offensive Security (for 17 months already)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 17 months already)
• Evolix (for 16 months already)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 16 months already)
• MyTux (for 16 months already)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 14 months already)
• Intevation GmbH (for 13 months already)
• Daevel SARL (for 12 months already)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 11 months already)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 11 months already)
• Gree, Inc. (for 10 months already)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 10 months already)
• NUMLOG (for 10 months already)
• WinGo AG (for 9 months already)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 5 months already)
• Sig-I/O (for 3 months already)
• Entr’ouvert

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

Individual reports

In September, 71.50 work hours have been dispatched among 7 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 9 hours (out of the 14.5 hours that he had allocated, he will catch up in October).
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Mike Gabriel did 16 hours (8 assigned + 8 remaining from month before).
• Raphaël Hertzog did 8 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 14.5 hours.
• Scott Kitterman did nothing out of the 4 hours allocated. He will catch up in October.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.50 hours.

Evolution of the situation

October is back to the highest level of funding with 85.5 hours funded. The late sponsors have all caught up now. And next month will again rise to a new record with multiple sponsors having joined up. So far we already have two new silver sponsors (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne and Univention GmbH) and a new bronze sponsor (Entr’ouvert). Many thanks to them!

With those sponsors we crossed the 50% mark that was our first objective. \o/ But we still need more support to reach our second goal of funding the equivalent of a full time position.

That said the increased level of support already allows us to do a better job in some areas that have been neglected : I asked the paid contributors to work towards providing mysql-5.5 in squeeze since version 5.1 is no longer supported by Oracle. We need beta testers to test the upgrade, see this message on the mailling list.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is close to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 15 packages awaiting an update (3 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 23 affected packages in total (7 less than last month).

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors are in bold.

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 16 months already)
• Blablacar (for 15 months already)
• Linode LLC (for 5 months already)
• Silver sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 16 months already)
• Domeneshop AS (for 15 months already)
• Université Lille 3 (for 15 months already)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 13 months already)
• Gandi SAS (for 10 months already)
• University of Luxembourg (for 7 months already)
• Rentabiliweb Group (for 5 months already)
• Univention GmbH
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne
• Bronze sponsors:
• Offensive Security (for 16 months already)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 16 months already)
• Evolix (for 15 months already)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 15 months already)
• MyTux (for 15 months already)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 13 months already)
• Intevation GmbH (for 12 months already)
• Daevel SARL (for 11 months already)
• FOSSter (for 11 months already)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 10 months already)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 10 months already)
• Gree, Inc. (for 9 months already)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 9 months already)
• NUMLOG (for 9 months already)
• WinGo AG (for 8 months already)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 5 months already)
• Sig-I/O
• Entr’ouvert

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

Individual reports

In August, 71.50 work hours have been dispatched among 7 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings did 15 hours.
• Guido Günther did 4 hours.
• Mike Gabriel was assigned 8 hours but did not do them. He will catch up in September.
• Raphaël Hertzog did 6.5 hours.
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 17 hours.
• Scott Kitterman did 4 hours.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 17 hours.

Evolution of the situation

September is stable compared to August (71.50 hours per month) and has not caught up back to the level of July as I hoped. Again it’s because 2 sponsors were not able to pay their renewal invoice on time (one of last month paid, but another bigger sponsor failed this month). Those sponsors will continue to support us and I would like to be able to say that things will be back to normal next month, but I can’t say it since we have also been informed of the (hopefully temporary) defection of another bronze sponsor that will affect us next month.

Fortunately there are also good news, we have 3 new sponsors in the pipe (2 silver, 1 platinum) who shall join the project soon. And Blablacar increased their support from Silver to Gold (from 4h/month to 8h/month).

But we still need more support… in particular since we would like to commit to support virtualization related packages in Wheezy: that’s clearly an objective for us. I recently published the summary of the work session held during DebConf 15 in Heidelberg (video recording).

It would be really nice if we could get closer to the goal of funding a full-time position.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation is close to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 18 packages awaiting an update (2 less than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 30 affected packages in total (8 more than last month).

Thanks to our sponsors

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 15 months already)
• Blablacar (for 14 months already)
• Linode LLC (for 4 months already)
• Silver sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 15 months already)
• Domeneshop AS (for 14 months already)
• Université Lille 3 (for 14 months already)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 12 months already)
• Gandi SAS (for 9 months already)
• University of Luxembourg (for 6 months already)
• Rentabiliweb Group (for 4 months already)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Offensive Security (for 15 months already)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 15 months already)
• Evolix (for 14 months already)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 14 months already)
• MyTux (for 14 months already)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 12 months already)
• Intevation GmbH (for 11 months already)
• Daevel SARL (for 10 months already)
• FOSSter (for 10 months already)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 9 months already)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 9 months already)
• Gree, Inc. (for 8 months already)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 8 months already)
• NUMLOG (for 8 months already)
• WinGo AG (for 7 months already)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 4 months already)
• Sig-I/O