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

In June, about 202 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 8 hours (out of 10 hours allocated, thus keeping 2 extra hours for July).
• Antoine Beaupré did 24 hours (out of 12 hours allocated + 12 extra hours).
• Ben Hutchings did 12 hours (out of 15 hours allocated, thus keeping 3 extra hours for July).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 17 hours (out of 23.75 hours allocated, thus keeping 6.75 extra hours for July).
• Holger Levsen did nothing (out of 8 hours allocated, thus keeping 8 extra hours for July).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 4.25 hours (out of 23.75 hours allocated, but gave back 10 hours, thus keeping 9.5 hours for July).
• Markus Koschany did 23.75 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 6 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 17.5 remaining hours, but gave back 15.5 unused hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for July).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 29.5 hours (out of 18 hours allocated + 11.5 extra hours).
• Santiago Ruano Rincón did 5.5 hours (out of 8 hours allocated + 7 extra hours, thus keeping 9.5 extra hours for July).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 23.75 hours.

The number of sponsored hours increased to 210 hours per month. We lost a silver sponsor but gained a new platinum sponsor with the Civil Infrastructure Platform project (hosted by the Linux Foundation, see their announce).

We are very happy to see the CIP project engage directly with the Debian project and try to work together to build the software stack for tomorrow’s world’s infrastructure.

The security tracker currently lists 57 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 52.

New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 33 months)
• GitHub (for 24 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 49 months)
• Blablacar (for 48 months)
• Linode (for 38 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 28 months)
• Plat’Home (for 27 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 49 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 46 months)
• Nantes Métropole (for 43 months)
• Dalenys (for 39 months)
• Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 35 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 34 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 28 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 22 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 18 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 12 months)
• Vente-privee.com (for 9 months)
• CINECA
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers – IntarS Austria (for 50 months)
• Evolix (for 49 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 49 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 48 months)
• MyTux (for 48 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 46 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 46 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 45 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 43 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 43 months)
• NUMLOG (for 43 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 42 months)
• WinGo AG (for 42 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 38 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 36 months)
• Entr’ouvert (for 33 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 31 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 25 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 25 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 25 months)
• RHX Srl (for 22 months)
• Bearstech (for 17 months)
• LiHAS (for 17 months)
• People Doc (for 13 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 11 months)
• Supagro (for 7 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 5 months)
• TrapX Security

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Kubuntu Linux has been my preferred Linux distribution for more than 10 years. My attraction to the KDE desktop and associated application set, has drawn from Kubuntu user, to a tester, teacher, developer, community manager and councilor. I feel really privileged to be part of, what can only be described as, a remarkable example of the free software, and community development of an exceptional product.

This latest release 18.04, effectively the April 2018 release, is a major milestone. It is the first LTS Long Term Support release of Kubuntu running the “Plasma 5” desktop.
The improvements are so considerable, in both performance and modern user interface ( UI ) design, that I was really excited about wanting to tell the world about it.

Which is why I was completely ecstatic when I was commissioned by Linux Magazine to write a 2000 word article, spanning some 4 pages, as a major review center piece in their magazine.

Published as “Linux Pro Magazine” in the US and “Linux Magazine” in Europe.

In the article I dive into one of the greatest and most unsung features of KDE Plasma 5; “Activities”. The introduction of activities in KDE has been a revelation to me, and completely changed the way that I work on a day to day basis. I encourage you whole heartedly to explore them, if you haven’t done so already.

Published in the August 2018 edition, and from which the introduction is available online at http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2018/213/Kubuntu-18.04 or of course you can buy the August issue from http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2018/213.

It is fantastic to see Kubuntu hitting the main stream publishing and to have an in-depth review article in one of the global leading Linux magazines is wonderful.

by Rick Timmis