[ Courtesy repost of http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/12/11/freexians-fourth-report-about-debian-long-term-support/ ]
Like [44]each month, here comes a report about the work of [45]paid
contributors to [46]Debian LTS.
Individual reports
In November 42.5 work hours have been equally split among 3 paid
contributors. Their reports are available:
* [47]Thorsten Alteholz did his share as usual.
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2014/11/my-debian-activities-in-november-2014/
* [48]Raphaël Hertzog worked 18 hours (catching up the remaining 4
hours of October).
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/12/02/my-free-software-activities-in-november-2014/
* [49]Holger Levsen did his share but did not manage to catch up with
the backlog of the previous months. As such, those unused work
hours have been redispatched among other contributors for the month
of December.
http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20141201-lts-november-2014/
New paid contributors
Last month we mentioned the possibility to recruit more paid
contributors to better share the work load and this has already
happened: Ben Hutchings and Mike Gabriel join the list of paid
contributors.
Ben, as a kernel maintainer, will obviously take care of releasing
Linux security updates. We are glad to have him on board because
backporting kernel fixes really need some skills that nobody else had
within the team of paid contributors.
Evolution of the situation
Compared to last month, the number of paid work hours has almost not
increased (we are at 45.7 hours per month) but we are in the process of
adding a few more sponsors: [50]Roche Diagnostics International AG,
[51]Misal-System, [52]Bitfolk LTD. And we are still in contact with a
couple of other companies which have announced their willingness to
contribute but which are waiting the new fiscal year.
But even with those new sponsors, we still have some way to go to reach
[53]our minimal goal of funding the equivalent of a half-time position.
So consider asking your company representative to join this project!
In terms of security updates waiting to be handled, the situation looks
better than last month: the dla-needed.txt file lists 27 packages
awaiting an update (6 less than last month), the list of [54]open
vulnerabilities in Squeeze shows about 58 affected packages in total.
Like last month, we’re a bit behind in terms of CVE triaging and there
are still many packages using SSLv3 where we have no clear plan (in
response to the POODLE issues).
The good side is that even though the kernel update required a large chunk
of time of Holger and Raphaël, we still managed to further reduce the
backlog of security issues.
Thanks to our sponsors
* Gold sponsors:
* [55]The Positive Internet
Silver sponsors:
* [56]AD&D – David Ayers – IntarS Austria
* [57]Blablacar
* [58]Domeneshop AS
* [59]Evolix
* [60]Trollweb Solutions
* [61]Université Lille 3
Bronze sponsors:
* [62]Daevel SARL
* [63]FOSSter
* [64]Freeside Internet Service
* [65]Intevation GmbH
* [66]Linuxhotel GmbH
* [67]MyTux
* [68]Nantes Métropole
* [69]Offensive Security
* [70]Seznam.cz, a.s.
Links
44. http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/
45. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
46. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
47. http://blog.alteholz.eu/2014/11/my-debian-activities-in-november-2014/
48. http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/12/02/my-free-software-activities-in-november-2014/
49. http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20141201-lts-november-2014/
50. http://www.roche.ch/rotkreuz
51. http://www.misal.pl/
52. http://bitfolk.com/
53. http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
54. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/oldstable
55. http://www.positive-internet.com/
56. http://www.intars.at/
57. http://www.blablacar.fr/
58. http://www.domainnameshop.com/
59. http://www.evolix.fr/
60. http://trollweb.no/
61. http://www.univ-lille3.fr/
62. https://daevel.fr/
63. http://www.fosster.com/
64. http://freeside.biz/
65. http://intevation.de/
66. http://linuxhotel.de/
67. http://www.mytux.fr/
68. http://www.nantesmetropole.fr/
69. http://www.offensive-security.com/
70. http://www.seznam.cz/
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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