Plucky Puffin Beta Statistics

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Today is the release of Plucky’s Beta. Below, I have detailed some statistics regarding the current state of the archive and ISOs, to supplement (not replace) information provided by the Ubuntu Release Team.

Please see the previous post: Plucky Puffin Feature Freeze Statistics

For statistics that are not in the public Grafana instance, please do consider adding them.

This page might get updated over time with additional statistics, but they will all have an endpoint of Plucky Beta Release.

ISO Sizes

Product 22.04.5 24.04.2 24.10 Plucky Beta
Ubuntu Studio 5.15 GB (5154330624 B) 7.71 GB (7709628416 B) 6.74 GB (6740715520 B) 7.02 GB (7024982016 B)
Edubuntu n/a 6.29 GB (6296694784 B) 6.75 GB (6756536320 B) 6.56 GB (6562396160 B)
Ubuntu Desktop 4.76 GB (4762707968 B) 6.34 GB (6343219200 B) 5.67 GB (5665497088 B) 6.34 GB (6339821568 B)
Ubuntu Cinnamon n/a 5.41 GB (5411307520 B) 5.00 GB (5002061824 B) 5.13 GB (5125888000 B)
Ubuntu Kylin 6.81 GB (6813349888 B) 5.48 GB (5483005952 B) 4.62 GB :dvd: (4618446848 B) 4.94 GB (4938876928 B)
Kubuntu 4.24 GB :dvd: (4236351488 B) 4.53 GB :dvd: (4527759360 B) 4.68 GB :dvd: (4678961152 B) 4.66 GB (4660430848 B)
Xubuntu 3.23 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3233513472 B) 4.24 GB :dvd: (4242739200 B) 4.27 GB :dvd: (4270448640 B) 4.59 GB :dvd: (4589187072 B)
Ubuntu Unity n/a 3.57 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3567362048 B) 3.66 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3662264320 B) 3.86 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3864535040 B)
Ubuntu MATE 3.68 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3680239616 B) 4.30 GB :dvd: (4301398016 B) 3.52 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3521746944 B) 3.75 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3750610944 B)
Lubuntu 3.11 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3110764544 B) 3.35 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3352426496 B) 3.51 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3513397248 B) 3.64 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3641419776 B)
Ubuntu Budgie 3.57 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3571154944 B) 4.25 GB :dvd: (4248414208 B) 3.46 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3463921664 B) 3.56 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3561334784 B)
Ubuntu Server 2.14 GB 🖴 :dvd: (2136926208 B) 3.21 GB 🖴 :dvd: (3213064192 B) 2.10 GB 🖴 :dvd: (2098460672 B) 2.02 GB 🖴 :dvd: (2020927488 B)

🖴 can fit on a 4 GB USB drive
:dvd: can fit on a 4.7 GB DVD

Note: All images are assumed to be non-minimal, deb-based amd64 images. The flavors are sorted (in descending order) by Plucky size.

The following products released oversized Beta images (please contact the Release Team):

  • Ubuntu Studio
  • Ubuntu Desktop
  • Xubuntu
  • Ubuntu Unity
  • Lubuntu (known bug)

(You can find the exact code defining this here, just be sure to update the tests.)

Archive and Packaging Statuses

The sponsorship queue has slowly but steadily increased in size between Feature Freeze and Beta. This is an area where extra attention would be appreciated between now and release day.

Here is a table with some statistics, compiled at approximately 20250328T02:00:00Z:

Title Main Restricted Universe Multiverse Total
FTBFS packages 13 0 850 30 893
Outstanding Merges 140 0 295 3 579
Packages in Proposed 30 5 387 12 434
Uploads This Cycle 2048 66 14843 135 17092

Between Feature Freeze and Beta:

  • The amount of FTBFS packages have slightly decreased.
  • While outstanding non-Universe merges spiked, outstanding Universe merges sharply declined. This could be seen as unusual, but until KDE/LXQt packages can be properly filtered out of that report, this is not a valid metric to be concerned by.
  • The size of proposed at Beta is approximately 1/3 of what it was at Feature Freeze. This can be seen as an excellent indicator of progress.
  • Almost half of the uploads this cycle happened past Feature Freeze. This could partially be attributed to being a downstream effect of Debian Trixie stabilizing.

State of autopkgtests:

Series Passed Failed Total % Passed
Plucky 105248 (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +7397) 9767 (:chart_with_downwards_trend: -24446) 115015 (:chart_with_downwards_trend: -17069) 91.51% (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +17.90%)
Oracular 95898 (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +4885) 34381 (:chart_with_downwards_trend: -3823) 130279 (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +5987) 73.61% (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +3.18%)
Noble 91013 (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +57695) 38204 (:chart_with_downwards_trend: -28375) 129217 (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +29320) 70.43% (:chart_with_upwards_trend: +39.43%)
Jammy 33318 66579 99897 31.00%

The pass rates for Noble, Jammy, and Plucky have increased, while Oracular’s rates have slightly decreased.

Top ten uploaders this cycle:

Name Count
Simon Quigley 4227
Matthias Klose 4072
Rik Mills 2802
Gianfranco Costamagna 1387
Jeremy Bícha 1079
Graham Inggs 969
Sudip Mukherjee 567
James Page 189
Paolo Pisati 129
Lena Voytek 102

Via SELECT changed_by_name, COUNT(*) AS upload_count FROM ubuntu_upload_history WHERE (distribution = 'plucky' OR distribution = 'plucky-proposed') AND (changed_by_name != 'Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync' AND changed_by_name != 'Ubuntu automatic language-pack builder') GROUP BY changed_by_name ORDER BY upload_count DESC LIMIT 10; on UDD.

Top ten sponsors this cycle:

Name Count
Simon Quigley 97
Graham Inggs 84
James Page 75
Jeremy Bícha 72
Sebastien Bacher 47
Timo Aaltonen 34
Marc Deslauriers 19
Dave Jones 18
Paolo Pisati 18
Nick Rosbrook 16

Via SELECT signed_by_name, COUNT(*) AS upload_count FROM ubuntu_upload_history WHERE (distribution = 'plucky' OR distribution = 'plucky-proposed') AND (changed_by_name != 'Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync' AND changed_by_name != 'Ubuntu automatic language-pack builder') AND (changed_by_name != signed_by_name) GROUP BY signed_by_name ORDER BY upload_count DESC LIMIT 10;

(This table in particular needed manual pruning.)

ISO Testers

From the ISO QA Tracker, here are the top five ISO testers for each supported series’ daily product from the reports:

LP ID Jammy Tests LP ID Noble Tests LP ID Oracular Tests LP ID Plucky Tests
leok 1841 leok 1172 leok 437 leok 230
guiverc 390 irihapeti 403 irihapeti 118 irihapeti 105
uninvolved 308 guiverc 149 ilvipero 66 corradoventu 36
pwlars 139 andersson123 131 corradoventu 41 guiverc 33
waveform 119 uninvolved 100 guiverc 37 tobhe 22

LP ID: Launchpad username
Tests: ISO Quality Assurance tests completed
There is no change in the Jammy and Noble test rates.

Thank you to our testers!

Bugs

Here is a table of bugs filed and milestones for Plucky:

Milestone Total Open
ubuntu-24.11 23 0
ubuntu-24.12 16 1
ubuntu-25.01 23 0
ubuntu-25.04-feature-freeze 10 9
ubuntu-25.02 31 8
ubuntu-25.04-beta 29 24
ubuntu-25.03 18 15
ubuntu-25.04 222 143
plucky-updates 2 0

These statistics were mostly gathered by hand; if you’d like to help me automate this report, or if you notice anything off, please ping me on Matrix. The next one of these will be on release day.

Thanks in advance!

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