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Hello and welcome to my May 2026 free software activities report.
A lot's been going on in my life offline so I took a bit of a hiatus
from doing these reports, but I've had a fairly productive month of
May so I thought it'd be nice to do another one for this month.

* GNU & FSF
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:CUSTOM_ID: gnu-fsf
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- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][GNU Emacs]]:

  - [[file:../gnu/emacs/ffs-0.2.2.org][ffs-0.2.2]]: I finally polished and published my ~ffs~ package for
    GNU Emacs on GNU ELPA.  Many thanks to [[https://protesilaos.com][Protesilaos]] for rounds of
    code review and feedback for improving and polishing the package
    in preparation for submission to GNU ELPA.

  - [[https://bugs.gnu.org/81101][bug#81101]]: Trying to visit <https://www.emacswiki.org> in EWW
    I noticed it fails with a =Somebody wants you to give them money=
    error due to the anti-bot challenge being served with a HTTP 402
    (Payment Required) response.  So I landed a patch [[https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-31&id=12eec781ed69c4fc7611e8c9a1953ad33da98a0c][=12eec781ed6=]] to
    no longer do that.  Thanks to Emacs comaintainer Sean Whitton
    for reviewing and approving my proposed patch.

  - [[https://bugs.gnu.org/81107][bug#81107]]: I noticed that in EWW, unlike ~<input type="submit">~
    HTML buttons, ~<button>~ elements were not tab-stoppable, leading
    to poorer usability and accessibility.  So I landed a patch
    [[https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-31&id=ec3d662de0bab08f8b68666d13c662c3193c2645][=ec3d662de0b=]] to fix that.  Thanks to Emacs comaintainer Eli
    Zaretskii for reviewing, providing feedback, and accepting my
    proposed change.

  - [[file:../gnu/emacs/emacs-chat-202605.org][Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua]]: I joined Sacha for a [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/emacs-chat-with-amin-bandali/][new episode]] of
    her Emacs Chat podcast, where we talked about Emacs and life.
    I gave a quick tour of my Emacs configuration, discussing at
    length my configurations for EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) among
    other topics like Emacs's facility for visually indicating buffer
    boundaries in the fringe by setting ~indicate-buffer-boundaries~
    and my convenience configuration macros.

- [[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-structure.html#assistant-gnuisances][maintainers@]]: I started the next long-overdue round of emails to GNU
  package maintainers to confirm the contact information we have on
  file for them and get a brief status update about their packages.
  Emails are sent in small batches to keep the workload of handling
  the responses manageable for assistant GNUisances.

- [[https://www.gnu.org/spotlight/spotlight.html][GNU Spotlight]]: I prepared and sent the May GNU Spotlight to the FSF
  campaigns team for publication on the FSF's community blog and the
  monthly Free Software Supporter newsletter.

* Debian
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:CUSTOM_ID: debian
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I've begun the work toward updating the Jami package in Debian
unstable again, which means I need to package new releases of its
direct and indirect dependencies.  For OpenDHT, I need to update
RESTinio, and to do that I first need to package expected-lite and
sobjectizer for Debian:

- [[https://bugs.debian.org/1120837][#1120837]]: ITP: expected-lite -- expected objects for C++11 and later

- [[https://bugs.debian.org/1137609][#1137609]]: ITP: sobjectizer -- C++ implementation of Actor,
  Publish-Subscribe, and CSP models

I've been working on packaging both and hope to have them uploaded to
the archive in the next days and weeks.

That's it for this month's report.

Take care, and so long for now.