Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for December below.

Debian project funding

• The gradle packaging proposal work estimation is now complete. The next steps for this project is regular packaging and engineering work with regular reports.
• In December € 2175 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

The work on the Debian developer survey has resulted in an initial draft which has been reviewed by paid LTS contributors. The next steps are wider review from the Debian project. Expect something soon on debian-project@lists.debian.org…

Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In December 14 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you’re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah if you are interested in participating.

• Abhijith PA worked 3h in December out of 8h available.
• Adrian Bunk worked 70h and 45min in December
• Anton Gladky did 12 hours for LTS in December.
• Ben Hutchings worked 16h in December.
• Chris Lamb worked 18h for LTS in December.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked 41.5 hours hours for LTS in December.
• Jeremiah Foster worked 29 hours on administrative duties for the LTS team and on managing the “project funding” initiative.
• Lee Garrett worked 11.75h for LTS in December.
• Markus Koschany worked 24 hours for LTS in December (out of 30h available).
• Ola Lundqvist worked 4 hours in December (out of 15h available).
• Roberto C. Sanchez worked 22 hours in December (out of 32h available).
• Sylvain Beucler worked 14h in December (out of 40.5h available).
• Thorsten Alteholz worked 40h in December.
• Utkarsh Gupta worked 40 hours on LTS and 5h on preparing the survey.

Evolution of the situation

In December we released 40 DLAs.

The security tracker currently lists 36 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 32 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 76 months)
  • GitHub (for 67 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 44 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 87 months)
  • Linode (for 81 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 70 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 70 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 26 months)
  • Deveryware (for 13 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 92 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 91 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 85 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 77 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 77 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 71 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 61 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 55 months)
  • CINECA (for 44 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 38 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 27 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 25 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 20 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 20 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 14 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 11 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 9 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 9 months)
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 92 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 92 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 89 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 88 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 87 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 86 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 86 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 85 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 85 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 84 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 81 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 76 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 73 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 68 months)
  • Tesorion (for 68 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 67 months)
  • Bearstech (for 59 months)
  • LiHAS (for 59 months)
  • People Doc (for 55 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 54 months)
  • Supagro (for 49 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 48 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 34 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 26 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 22 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 18 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 13 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 10 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 4 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 4 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 3 months)

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for November below.

Debian project funding

• Our project funding work continues with an active bid on the work of packaging a recent gradle in Debian. This month the bidder has been estimating the scope of the entire project.
• The Grow Your Ideas project page also has some ambitious initiatives that may evolve into a funded project. The project ideas on that page range from a new wiki for Debian, a more efficient reimbursement process, and the implementation of PPAs for Debian.
• In November € 2625 was put aside to fund Debian projects.

We continue to looking forward to hearing about Debian project proposals from various Debian stakeholders. This month has seen work on a survey that will go out to Debian Developers to gather feedback on what they think should be the priorities for funding in the project.

Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In November 13 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you’re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah if you are interested in participating.

• Adrian Bunk did 62h out of 56h assigned for November and 6h from October.
• Anton Gladky did 12h out of 12h assigned.
• Ben Hutchings did 20h (out of 16h available, thus anticipating 4h from December).
• Chris Lamb did 18h out of 18h assigned.
• Holger Levsen gave back 3h (out of 3h assigned).
• Jeremiah Foster is coordinating/managing the LTS team did 29h (out of 10h assigned and 10h from October for LTS administration), and spent 9 hours on Projects funded directly through the project funding program.
• Lee Garrett did 9 hours out 60 assigned and carried over 51h into December
• Markus Koschany did 30h out of 30h assigned.
• Neil Williams did 1.5h (out of 11.5h assigned and 28.5h from October). He gave back the remaining hours.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 31.5h (out of 32h assigned), thus carrying over .5h to December.
• Sylvain Beucler did 21.5h (out of 62h assigned), thus carrying over 40.5h to December.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 40h (out of 40h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 30 (out of 40h assigned), thus carrying over 10h to December.

Evolution of the situation

In November we released 31 DLAs.

The security tracker currently lists 23 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 16 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 75 months)
  • GitHub (for 65 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 43 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 86 months)
  • Linode (for 80 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 69 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 68 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 25 months)
  • Deveryware (for 12 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 91 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 90 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 84 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 76 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 76 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 70 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 59 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 54 months)
  • CINECA (for 43 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 37 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 26 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 24 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 19 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 18 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 13 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 10 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 8 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 8 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 91 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 91 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 88 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 87 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 86 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 85 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 85 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 84 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 84 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 83 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 80 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 75 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 72 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 67 months)
  • Tesorion (for 67 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 66 months)
  • Bearstech (for 58 months)
  • LiHAS (for 58 months)
  • People Doc (for 54 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 53 months)
  • Supagro (for 48 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 47 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 33 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 25 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 21 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 17 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 12 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 8 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH (for 3 months)
  • WordFinder.pro (for 3 months)
  • CNRS DT INSU Résif

Every month we review the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for October below.

Debian project funding

• Our project funding work continues with an active bid on the work of packaging gradle in Debian. The next steps are reviewing the bid and formal approval.
• In October 2,475 EUR was put aside to fund Debian projects.

We’re looking forward to receiving more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.

Debian LTS contributors

In October 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below.

• Adrian Bunk did 40.5h in October (out of 28.5h assigned and 18h remaining, thus keeping 6h for November).
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 14.75h in October (out of 2h assigned and 28h remaining, thus keeping 15.25h for November).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 1h (out of 12h assigned, but gave back the remaining 11h).
• Jeremiah Foster worked 20h (out of 20h assigned and 10h remaining, thus keeping 10h for November).
• Markus Koschany did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 5h (out of 5h assigned).
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 28.5h assigned, but gave back the remaining 5h).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 28.5h (out of 28.5h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

In October we released 34 DLAs.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 22 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 74 months)
  • GitHub (for 64 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 42 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 85 months)
  • Linode (for 79 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 68 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 67 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 24 months)
  • Deveryware (for 11 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 90 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 89 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 83 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 75 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 75 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 69 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 59 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 53 months)
  • CINECA (for 42 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 36 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 25 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 23 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 18 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 17 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 12 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 9 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 7 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 7 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 90 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 90 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 87 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 86 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 85 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 84 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 84 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 83 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 83 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 82 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 79 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 74 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 71 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 66 months)
  • Tesorion (for 66 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 65 months)
  • Bearstech (for 57 months)
  • LiHAS (for 57 months)
  • People Doc (for 53 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 52 months)
  • Supagro (for 47 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 46 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 32 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 24 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 20 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 16 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 11 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 7 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH
  • WordFinder.pro
  • CNRS DT INSU Résif

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.

Debian project funding

Folks from the LTS team, along with members of the Debian Android Tools team and Phil Morrel, have proposed work on the Java build tool, gradle, which is currently blocked due to the need to build with a plugin not available in Debian. The LTS team reviewed the project submission and it has been approved. After approval we’ve created a Request for Bids which is active now.

You’ll hear more about this through official Debian channels, but in the meantime, if you feel you can help with this project, please submit a bid. Thanks!

This September, Freexian set aside 2550 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 September, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA has returned hours and marked themselves inactive, at least for the time being. He did 0h out of 14h, carried over 14h and returned 28h.
• Adrian Bunk did 19.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 12.75 from August), carrying over 18h to October.
• Anton Gladky did 12h (out of 12h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 2h (out of 12.75h assigned and 19.25h from August), thus carrying over 30h to October.
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 5.5h assigned plus 74.5h from August), thus is carrying over 80h for October.
• Holger Levsen did 3h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 9h and carried over 3h.
• Jeremiah Foster worked 10 hours (out of 20h assigned) on LTS work, carrying over 10h.
• Lee Garrett did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 24.75h assigned and 23.75 from August), thus is carrying over 48.50h for October.
• Markus Koschany did 43.5h (out of 24.75h assigned and 18.75h from August)
• Neil Williams did 24.5h (out of 24.75h assigned)
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 6h (out of 24.75h assigned and gave back 18.75h)
• Sylvain Beucler did 27h (out of 24.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 24.75h (out of 24.75h assigned) but did not publish his report yet.
• Ola Lundqvist did 2 hours (out of 21h carried over from previous months), and is thus carrying 19h for October.

Evolution of the situation

In September we released 30 DLAs. September was also the second month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors.

Also, we would like say that we are always looking for new contributors to LTS. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested!

The security tracker currently lists 33 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
  • TOSHIBA (for 73 months)
  • GitHub (for 64 months)
  • Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 41 months)
• Gold sponsors:
  • Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 84 months)
  • Linode (for 78 months)
  • Babiel GmbH (for 67 months)
  • Plat’Home (for 67 months)
  • University of Oxford (for 23 months)
  • Deveryware (for 10 months)
  • VyOS
• Silver sponsors:
  • The Positive Internet Company (for 89 months)
  • Domeneshop AS (for 88 months)
  • Nantes Métropole (for 82 months)
  • Univention GmbH (for 74 months)
  • Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 74 months)
  • Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 68 months)
  • Exonet B.V. (for 58 months)
  • Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 52 months)
  • CINECA (for 41 months)
  • Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 35 months)
  • Cloudways Ltd (for 24 months)
  • Dinahosting SL (for 22 months)
  • Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 17 months)
  • Platform.sh (for 17 months)
  • Moxa Intelligence Co., Ltd. (for 11 months)
  • sipgate GmbH (for 8 months)
  • OVH US LLC (for 6 months)
  • Tilburg University (for 6 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
  • Evolix (for 89 months)
  • Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 89 months)
  • Linuxhotel GmbH (for 86 months)
  • Intevation GmbH (for 85 months)
  • Daevel SARL (for 84 months)
  • Bitfolk LTD (for 83 months)
  • Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 83 months)
  • Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 82 months)
  • NUMLOG (for 82 months)
  • WinGo AG (for 81 months)
  • Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 78 months)
  • Entr’ouvert (for 73 months)
  • Adfinis AG (for 70 months)
  • Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 65 months)
  • Tesorion (for 65 months)
  • GNI MEDIA (for 64 months)
  • Bearstech (for 56 months)
  • LiHAS (for 56 months)
  • People Doc (for 52 months)
  • Catalyst IT Ltd (for 51 months)
  • Demarcq SAS (for 45 months)
  • Université Grenoble Alpes (for 31 months)
  • TouchWeb SAS (for 23 months)
  • SPiN AG (for 19 months)
  • CoreFiling (for 15 months)
  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 10 months)
  • Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 7 months)
  • Tem Innovations GmbH
  • WordFinder.pro