Hello,
as you probably know Freexian has been paying some Debian contributors to work
on Debian LTS (thanks to the support of multiple sponsors). As part of
the transparency rules we setup, there's a requirement to report back
regularly of how the money has been spent. The first report got published:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/09/10/freexians-first-report-about-debian-long-term-support/
Here's a lynx -dump of the article for your convenience:
Freexian’s first report about Debian Long Term Support
September 10, 2014 by Raphaël Hertzog
When we setup [44]Freexian’s offer to bring together funding from
multiple companies in order to sponsor the work of multiple developers
on [45]Debian LTS, one of the rules that I imposed is that all paid
contributors must provide a public monthly report of their paid work.
While the LTS project officially started in June, the first month where
contributors were actually paid has been July. Freexian sponsored
Thorsten Alteholz and Holger Levsen for 10.5 hours each in July and for
16.5 hours each in August. Here are their reports:
* Thorsten Alteholz: [46]July / [47]August
* Holger Levsen: [48]July / [49]August
It’s worth noting that Freexian sponsored Holger’s work to fix the
security tracker to support squeeze-lts. It’s my belief that using the
money of our sponsors to make it easier for everybody to contribute to
Debian LTS is money well spent.
As evidenced by the progress bar on [50]Freexian’s offer page, we have
not yet reached our minimal goal of funding the equivalent of a
half-time position. And it shows in the results, the [51]dla-needed.txt
still shows around 30 open issues. This is slightly better than the
state two months ago but we can improve a lot on the average time to
push out a security update…
To have an idea of the relative importance of the contributions of the
paid developers, I counted the number of uploads made by Thorsten and
Holger since July: of 40 updates, they took care of 19 of them, so
about the half.
I also looked at the other contributors: Raphaël Geissert stands out
with 9 updates (I believe that he is contracted by Électricité de
France for doing this) and most of the other contributors look like
regular Debian maintainers taking care of their own packages (Paul
Gevers with cacti, Christoph Berg with postgresql, Peter Palfrader with
tor, Didier Raboud with cups, Kurt Roeckx with openssl, Balint Reczey
with wireshark) except Matt Palmer and Luciano Bello who (likely) are
benevolent members of the LTS team.
There are multiple things to learn here:
1. Paid contributors already handle almost 70% of the updates.
Counting only on volunteers would not have worked.
2. Quite a few companies that promised help (and got mentioned in the
[52]press release) have not delivered the promised help yet
(neither through Freexian nor directly).
Last but not least, this project wouldn’t exist without the support of
multiple companies and organizations. Many thanks to them:
* Gold sponsors:
+ [53]The Positive Internet
* Silver sponsors:
+ [54]AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
+ [55]Blablacar
+ [56]Domeneshop AS
+ [57]Evolix
+ [58]Université Lille 3
* Bronze sponsors:
+ [59]Freeside Internet Service
+ [60]MyTux
+ [61]Offensive Security
+ [62]Seznam.cz, a.s.
Hopefully this list will expand over time! Any help to reach out to new
companies and organizations is more than welcome.
Links:
44. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
45. http://wiki.debian.org/LTS
46. http://blog.alteholz.eu/2014/07/my-debian-activities-in-july-2014/
47. http://blog.alteholz.eu/2014/08/my-debian-activities-in-august-2014/
48. http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20140819-lts-july-2014/
49. http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20140819-lts-august-2014/
50. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
51. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?revision=HEAD&view=co
52. https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140616
53. http://www.positive-internet.com/
54. http://www.intars.at/
55. http://www.blablacar.fr/
56. http://www.domainnameshop.com/
57. http://www.evolix.fr/
58. http://www.univ-lille3.fr/
59. http://freeside.biz/
60. http://www.mytux.fr/
61. http://www.offensive-security.com/
62. http://www.seznam.cz/
Thank you!
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Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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