Debtags made quite some progress the last months. Many thanks to Enrico Zini, who did most of the work.

We now have a new database (on alioth), a new editing frontend (using Ajax, and accessing this database) and a couple of nice utils around it.

Go Tagging is a page listing untagged packages - by popularity contest score.

Just go there, click a package you are somewhat familiar with (sorry, the really popular ones are already gone :-) but there are still some well-known ones in there such as "rails") and edit the tags. Enrico also did some kind of AI to suggest tags. This is not based on the Google Summer of Code project, but something Enrico did using the Xapian search engine index he's been using for the main search function.

A couple of good features have been proposed, but are not yet implemented. For example, a "similar packages" overview, so that when you've been tagging one package you could easily switch over to another similar package.

Or a per-maintainer view. It was suggested that it should be added to the packages.qa.debian.org per-maintainer view page; this would be great, but will require some more work to be done.

On a related base, it would be interesting to make a tag cloud (like this Debian package cloud) on one maintainers packages only. This would then be a view of one maintainers interests in Debian...

Anyway, thanks to everybody who has been tagging packages and helping with the backend databases and applications.