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Here is my transparent report for my work on the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and Debian Extended Long Term Support (ELTS), which extend the security support for past Debian releases, as a paid contributor.

In June, the monthly sponsored hours were split evenly among contributors depending on their max availability - I was assigned 30h for LTS (out of 30 max; all done) and 5.25h for ELTS (out of 20 max; all done).

While LTS is part of the Debian project, fellow contributors sometimes surprise me: suggestion to vote for sponsors-funded projects with concorcet was only met with overhead concerns, and there were requests for executive / business owner decisions (we're currently heading towards consultative vote); I heard concerns about discussing non-technical issues publicly (IRC team meetings are public though); the private mail infrastructure was moved from self-hosting straight to Google; when some got an issue with Debian Social for our first video conference, there were immediate suggestions to move to Zoom...
Well, we do need some people to make those LTS firmware updates in non-free :)

Also this was the last month before shifting suites: goodbye to Jessie LTS and Wheezy ELTS, welcome Stretch LTS and Jessie ELTS.

ELTS - Wheezy

  • mysql-connector-java: improve testsuite setup; prepare wheezy/jessie/stretch triple builds; coordinate versioning scheme with security-team; security upload ELA 234-1
  • ntp: wheezy+jessie triage: 1 ignored (too intrusive to backport); 1 postponed (hard to exploit, no patch)
  • Clean-up (ditch) wheezy VMs :)

LTS - Jessie

  • mysql-connector-java: see common work in ELTS
  • mysql-connector-java: security uploads DLA 2245-1 (LTS) and DSA 4703 (oldstable)
  • ntp: wheezy+jessie triage (see ELTS)
  • rails: global triage, backport 2 patches, security upload DLA 2251-1
  • rails: global security: prepare stretch/oldstable update
  • rails: new important CVE on unmaintained 4.x, fixes introduce several regressions, propose new fix to upstream, update stretch proposed update [and jessie, but rails will turn out unsupported in ELTS]
  • python3.4: prepare update to fix all pending non-criticial issues, 5/6 ready
  • private video^W^Wpublic IRC team meeting

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