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

Individual reports

In September, 208.25 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 12.0h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 2h to October.
• Adrian Bunk did 14h (out of 19.75h assigned), thus carrying over 5.75h to October.
• Ben Hutchings did 8.25h (out of 16h assigned and 9.75h from August), but gave back 7.75h, thus carrying over 9.75h to October.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 5h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 31.75h (out of 19.75h assigned and 12h from August).
• Ola Lundqvist did 9.5h (out of 12h from August), thus carrying 2.5h to October.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 8.75h (out of 19.75h assigned), while he already anticipated the remaining 11h in August.

Evolution of the situation

September was a regular LTS month with an IRC meeting.

The security tracker currently lists 45 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 48 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 61 months)
• GitHub (for 51 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 28 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 76 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 71 months)
• Linode (for 66 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 55 months)
• Plat’Home (for 54 months)
• University of Oxford (for 10 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 77 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 76 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 70 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 62 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 62 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 55 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 45 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 39 months)
• CINECA (for 29 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 23 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 12 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 10 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 4 months)
• Platform.sh (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 77 months)
• Evolix (for 76 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 74 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 73 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 72 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 71 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 71 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 70 months)
• NUMLOG (for 70 months)
• WinGo AG (for 69 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 65 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 60 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 58 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 52 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 52 months)
• Tesorion (for 52 months)
• Bearstech (for 44 months)
• LiHAS (for 44 months)
• People Doc (for 40 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 38 months)
• Supagro (for 34 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 32 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 18 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 10 months)
• SPiN AG (for 7 months)
• CoreFiling (for 3 months)

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

Individual reports

In August, 237.25 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 10h assigned).
• Adrian Bunk did 31h (out of 21.75h assigned and 9.25h from July).
• Ben Hutchings did 6.25h (out of 16h assigned), thus carrying over 9.75h to September.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 7h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 20h (out of 21.75h assigned and 10.25h from July), thus carrying over 12h to September.
• Mike Gabriel did 16.0h (out of 8h assigned and 8h from July).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6.9h (out of 8h assigned and 16h from July), and gave back 5.1h, thus carrying over 12h to September.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 32.75h (out of 21.75h assigned and anticipating 11h from September).

Evolution of the situation

August was a regular LTS month once again, even though it was only our 2nd month with Stretch LTS.
At the end of August some of us participated in DebConf 20 online where we held our monthly team meeting. A video is available.
As of now this video is also the only public resource about the LTS survey we held in July, though a written summary is expected to be released soon.

The security tracker currently lists 56 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 55 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

Sponsors that recently joined are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 60 months)
• GitHub (for 50 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 27 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 75 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 70 months)
• Linode (for 65 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 54 months)
• Plat’Home (for 53 months)
• University of Oxford (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 76 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 75 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 69 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 61 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 61 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 54 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 44 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 38 months)
• CINECA (for 28 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 22 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 11 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 9 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 3 months)
• Platform.sh (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 76 months)
• Evolix (for 75 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 73 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 72 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 71 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 70 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 70 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 69 months)
• NUMLOG (for 69 months)
• WinGo AG (for 68 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 64 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 59 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 57 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 51 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 51 months)
• Tesorion (for 51 months)
• Bearstech (for 43 months)
• LiHAS (for 43 months)
• People Doc (for 39 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 37 months)
• Supagro (for 33 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 31 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 17 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 9 months)
• SPiN AG (for 6 months)
• CoreFiling

Like each month, albeit a bit later due to vacation, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In July, 249.25 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 18.0h (out of 14h assigned and 6h from June), and gave back 2h to the pool.
• Adrian Bunk did 16.0h (out of 25.25h assigned), thus carrying over 9.25h to August.
• Ben Hutchings did 5h (out of 20h assigned), and gave back the remaining 15h.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 60h (out of 5.75h assigned and 54.25h from June).
• Holger Levsen spent 10h (out of 10h assigned) for managing LTS and ELTS contributors.
• Markus Koschany did 15h (out of 25.25h assigned), thus carrying over 10.25h to August.
• Mike Gabriel did nothing (out of 8h assigned), thus is carrying over 8h for August.
• Ola Lundqvist did 3h (out of 12h assigned and 7h from June), thus carrying over 16h to August.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 26.5h (out of 25.25h assigned and 1.25h from June).
• Sylvain Beucler did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

July was our first month of Stretch LTS! Given this is our fourth LTS release we anticipated a smooth transition and it seems everything indeed went very well. Many thanks to the members of the Debian ftpmaster-, security, release- and publicity- teams who helped us make this happen!
Stretch LTS begun on July 18th 2020 after the 13th and final Stretch point release. and is currently scheduled to end on June 30th 2022.

Last month, we asked you to participate in a survey and we got 1764 submissions, which is pretty awesome. Thank you very much for participating!. Right now we are still busy crunching the results, but we already shared some early analysis during the Debconf LTS bof this week.

The security tracker currently lists 54 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 52 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 59 months)
• GitHub (for 50 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 27 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 74 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 70 months)
• Linode (for 64 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 53 months)
• Plat’Home (for 53 months)
• University of Oxford (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 75 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 74 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 68 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 60 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 60 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 54 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 44 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 38 months)
• CINECA (for 27 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 21 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 11 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 9 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 3 months)
• Platform.sh (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 75 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 75 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 72 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 71 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 70 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 69 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 69 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 68 months)
• NUMLOG (for 68 months)
• WinGo AG (for 68 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 64 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 59 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 56 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 51 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 51 months)
• Tesorion (for 51 months)
• Bearstech (for 42 months)
• LiHAS (for 42 months)
• People Doc (for 39 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 37 months)
• Supagro (for 32 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 31 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 17 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 9 months)
• SPiN AG (for 6 months)
• CoreFiling

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

Individual reports

In June, 202.00 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 8h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 6h to July.
• Ben Hutchings did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 4h from his backlog of 58.25h from May, thus carrying over 54.25h to July.
• Markus Koschany did 60h (out of 48.25h backlog from May and 11.75h extra hours manually assigned).
• Mike Gabriel did 8h (out of 8h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 12.5h (out of 12h assigned and 7.5h from May), thus carrying over 7h to July.
• Roberto C. Sánchez did 28.75h (out of 30h assigned), thus carrying over 1.25h to July.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 30h (out of 30h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

June was the last month of Jessie LTS which ended on 2020-06-20. If you still need to run Jessie somewhere, please read the post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years.
So, as (Jessie) LTS is dead, long live the new LTS, Stretch LTS! Stretch has received its last point release, so regular LTS operations can now continue.
Accompanying this, for the first time, we have prepared a small survey about our users and contributors, who they are and why they are using LTS. Filling out the survey should take less than 10 minutes. We would really appreciate if you could participate in the survey online! On July 27th 2020 we will close the survey, so please don’t hesitate and participate now! After that, there will be a followup with the results.

The security tracker for Stretch LTS currently lists 29 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 44 packages needing an update in Stretch LTS.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

We welcome CoreFiling this month!

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 58 months)
• GitHub (for 48 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 26 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 73 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 69 months)
• Linode (for 63 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 52 months)
• Plat’Home (for 51 months)
• University of Oxford (for 8 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 74 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 73 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 67 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 59 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 59 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 53 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 42 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 36 months)
• CINECA (for 26 months)
• Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 20 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 9 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 7 months)
• Platform.sh
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 74 months)
• Evolix (for 73 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 71 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 70 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 69 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 68 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 68 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 67 months)
• NUMLOG (for 67 months)
• WinGo AG (for 66 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 63 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 58 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 55 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 50 months)
• Tesorion (for 50 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 49 months)
• Bearstech (for 41 months)
• LiHAS (for 41 months)
• People Doc (for 37 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 36 months)
• Supagro (for 31 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 29 months)
• Université Grenoble Alpes (for 16 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 8 months)
• SPiN AG (for 4 months)
• CoreFiling