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

Individual reports

In July, 136.6 work hours have been dispatched among 11 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupré has been allocated 4 hours again but in the end he put back his 8 pending hours in the pool for the next months.
• Balint Reczey did 18 hours (out of 7 hours allocated + 2 remaining, thus keeping 2 extra hours for August).
• Ben Hutchings did 15 hours (out of 14.7 hours allocated + 1 remaining, keeping 0.7 extra hour for August).
• Brian May did 14.7 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 14 hours (out of 14.7 hours, thus keeping 0.7 hours for next month).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 13 hours (out of 14.7 hours allocated, thus keeping 1.7 hours extra hours for August).
• Guido Günther did 8 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 14.7 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 14 hours (out of 14.7 hours assigned, thus keeping 0.7 extra hours for August).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 14 hours (out of 14.7h allocated + 11.25 remaining, the 11.95 extra hours will be put back in the global pool as Santiago is stepping down).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 14.7 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours jumped to 159 hours per month thanks to GitHub joining as our second platinum sponsor (funding 3 days of work per month)! Our funding goal is getting closer but it’s not there yet.

The security tracker currently lists 22 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file likewise. That’s a sharp decline compared to last month.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 10 months)
• GitHub
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 26 months)
• Blablacar (for 25 months)
• Linode LLC (for 15 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 4 months)
• Plat’Home (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 25 months)
• Université Lille 3 (for 25 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 23 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 19 months)
• University of Luxembourg (for 17 months)
• Dalenys (for 16 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 11 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 11 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 26 months)
• Evolix (for 26 months)
• Offensive Security (for 26 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 26 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 25 months)
• MyTux (for 25 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 23 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 22 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 21 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 20 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 20 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 19 months)
• NUMLOG (for 19 months)
• WinGo AG (for 18 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 15 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 12 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 10 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 7 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 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)