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

Individual reports

In February, 58 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings
• Holger Levsen (though he did only 9h out of the 14.5h allocated, he will have to catch up in March)
• Raphaël Hertzog
• Thorsten Alteholz

Evolution of the situation

During the last month, we gained 3 paid work hours: we’re now at 61 hours per month sponsored by 28 organizations and we have one supplementary sponsor in the pipe that should bring 4 more hours.

The increase is not very quick but seems to be steady. Hopefully at some point, we will have enough resources to do a more exhaustive job. For now, the paid contributors handle in priority the most popular packages used by the sponsors and there are some packages in the end of the queue which have open security issues for months already (example: CVE-2012-6685 on libnokogiri-ruby).

So, as usual, we are looking for more sponsors.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks a little bit worse than last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 40 packages awaiting an update (3 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 58 affected packages in total (5 less than last month). We are getting a bit more effective with CVE triage.

A logo for the LTS project?

Every time that I write an LTS report, I remember that it would be nice if my LTS related articles could feature a nice picture/logo that reminds people of the LTS team/initiative. Is there anyone up for the challenge of creating that logo? 🙂

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors of the month are in bold.

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Blablacar
• Domeneshop AS
• Evolix
• Gandi SAS
• Trollweb Solutions
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Gree, Inc.
• Greenbone Networks GmbH
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• NUMLOG
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.
• WinGo AG

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

Individual reports

In January, 48 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings
• Holger Levsen
• Raphaël Hertzog
• Thorsten Alteholz

Evolution of the situation

During the last month, the number of paid work hours has made a noticeable jump: we’re now at 58 hours per month. At this rate, we would need 3 more months to reach our minimal goal of funding the equivalent of a half-time position. Unfortunately, the number of new sponsors actually in the process is not likely to be enough to have a similar raise next month.

So, as usual, we are looking for more sponsors.

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks a bit worse than last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 37 packages awaiting an update (7 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 63 affected packages in total (7 more than last month).

The increase is not too worrying, but the waiting time before an issue is dealt with is sometimes more problematic. To be able to deal with all incoming issues in a timely manner, the LTS team needs more resources: some months will have more issues than usual, some issues will be longer to handle than others, etc.

Thanks to our sponsors

The new sponsors of the month are in bold.

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Blablacar
• Domeneshop AS
• Evolix
• Gandi SAS
• Trollweb Solutions
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Gree, Inc.
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• NUMLOG
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.

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

Individual reports

In December 46 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors (note that Thorsten and Raphaël have actually spent more hours because they took over some hours that Holger did not do over the former months). Their reports are available:

• Ben Hutchings (for his first month!).
• Holger Levsen
• Raphaël Hertzog
• Thorsten Alteholz

Evolution of the situation

Compared to last month, the number of paid work hours has almost not increased (we are at 48 hours per month). We still have a couple of new sponsors in the pipe but with the new year they did not complete the process yet. Hopefully next month will see a noticeable increase.

As usual, we are looking for more sponsors to reach our our minimal goal of funding the equivalent of a half-time position. Those of you who are struggling to spend money in the last quarter due to budget overrun, now is a good time to see if you want to include Debian LTS support in your 2015 budget!

In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks similar to last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 30 packages awaiting an update (3 more than last month), the list of open vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 56 affected packages in total. We do not manage to clear the backlog but it’s not getting significantly worse either.

Thanks to our sponsors

• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet
• Silver sponsors:
• AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
• Blablacar
• Domeneshop AS
• Evolix
• Trollweb Solutions
• Université Lille 3
• Bronze sponsors:
• Bitfolk LTD
• Daevel SARL
• FOSSter
• Freeside Internet Service
• Intevation GmbH
• Linuxhotel GmbH
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH
• MyTux
• Nantes Métropole
• Offensive Security
• Seznam.cz, a.s.