+1 Maintenance Report from 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-12

This was my first time doing +1 Maintenance. I learned a lot and had some assistance from @ruancomelli and @cad97, two of my teammates on the Ubuntu Rust Toolchain team. They had also not done a +1 Maintenance shift and were shadowing me to learn and understand the processes.

OpenSSL 4 Migration

I wanted to assist with the OpenSSL 4 that @ravi-sharma and @ginggs are driving. I met with Ravi and learned about the migration process and the list of FTBFS packages that needed help.

The next package in the list was swi-prolog. I used Claude to develop a patch which I built and tested. I discovered that I needed to do no-change rebuilds for several of the swi-prolog dependencies which were built in my openssl4-compatibility PPA.

There are open merge proposals on Debian Salsa and Launchpad which I want to get merged soon.

I wanted to work on more packages, but as an Engineering Manager my time was occupied by many meetings and I did not have time for other packages. I will continue learning packaging so that I can be more productive during my next +1 Maintenance shift.

Recommendations for the next +1 Maintainer:

Skia’s Work-needed Items

Assist with OpenSSL 4 migration

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