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The upstream test suites for a lot of Emacs addons will soon start running on ci.debian.net, and lots of the steps in packaging Emacs addons have been automated. Secondarily, I've done maintenance work in the pkg-haskell and pkg-mozext teams.</p> <p>In the future, I'm interested in smoothing the processes involved in maintaining Debian packages, to save valuable volunteer time that can then be spent on fixing bugs. In particular, handling source packages is still too fiddly, especially as part of the sponsorship process. To this end I've been contributing patches and bug reports to dgit. I also maintain a module in the Propellor configuration management system that automatically sets up sbuild, piuparts and autopkgtest on a developer's machine.</p> </div> <div class="collapsed"> My name is Sean and I'm from the UK, though at present I'm a graduate student in the US. Aside from the usual QA work, most … <span class="btn btn-sm btn-info expander"><span class="fa fa-expand"></span> Expand</span> </div> </div> <h2 class="mt-3">Personal history</h2> <table class="proctable table table-sm tablesorter "> <caption>New-style processes</caption> <thead> <tr> <th>Started</th> <th>Last</th> <th>Target</th> <th>Applicant</th> <th>UID</th> <th>Status</th> <th>AM</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="word"><small>2016-09-08</small></td> <td class="word"><small>2016-12-21</small></td> <td class="word" val="4">DD, upl.</td> <td><a href="/process/89/">Sean Whitton</a></td> <td><a href="/process/89/">spwhitton</a></td> <td>Closed</td> <td> <a href='/person/gwolf/'>gwolf</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="proctable tablesorter table table-sm"> <caption>Old-style processes</caption> <thead> <tr> <th>Applicant</th> <th>From</th> <th>To</th> <th>Applying for</th> <th>Progress</th> <th>AM</th> <th>Advocate(s)</th> </thead> <tbody> </tbody> </table> <h2 class="mt-3">Advocate history</h2> <table class="proctable table table-sm tablesorter "> <caption>New-style processes</caption> <thead> <tr> <th>Started</th> <th>Last</th> <th>Target</th> <th>Applicant</th> <th>UID</th> <th>Status</th> <th>AM</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="word"><small>2024-08-27</small></td> <td class="word"><small>2024-09-07</small></td> <td class="word" val="2">DM</td> <td><a href="/process/1323/">Xiyue Deng</a></td> <td><a href="/process/1323/">manphiz</a></td> <td>Closed</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="proctable tablesorter table table-sm"> <caption>Old-style processes</caption> <thead> <tr> <th>Applicant</th> <th>From</th> <th>To</th> <th>Applying for</th> <th>Progress</th> <th>AM</th> <th>Advocate(s)</th> </thead> <tbody> </tbody> </table> </div> <footer id="main-footer" class="card mt-3 d-print-none"> <div class="card-body"> <p class="card-text"><small> <a href="/license/">Copyright</a> © 2012--2020 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FrontDesk">Debian Front Desk</a>. 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