Jackson: tag2upload in the first month of forky

[Posted September 17, 2025 by jzb]

Ian Jackson has published a blog post summarizing the tag2upload service's first month of handling uploads for the upcoming Debian 14 ("forky") release:

We announced tag2upload's open beta in mid-July. That was in the middle of the the freeze for trixie, so usage was fairly light until the forky floodgates opened.

Since then the service has successfully performed 637 uploads, of which 420 were in the last 32 days. That's an average of about 13 per day. For comparison, during the first half of September up to today there have been 2475 uploads to unstable. That's about 176/day.

So, tag2upload is already handling around 7.5% of uploads. This is very gratifying for a service which is advertised as still being in beta!

LWN covered tag2upload in July 2024.

debusine

Posted Sep 17, 2025 17:25 UTC (Wed) by mbiebl (subscriber, #41876) [Link] (1 responses)

I found debusine (https://debusine.debian.net/) an incredibly useful new service in Debian which would benefit from wider recognition. Maybe something lwn could report about in a future article

debusine

Posted Sep 17, 2025 17:42 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have kind of had an eye on it since Debconf. For best results, suggestions to lwn@lwn.net will definitely be seen and, perhaps, acted on. :-)