Hello, Caitlin,
welcome on board,
I do not know if other agreed about this but, it would be nice to add autopackage test to most of the debian-science packages.
> I'm not interested in any particular package. I'm more interested in the
> QA- and release-type tasks, cleaning up existing packages and importing
> the new upstream versions before the jessie freeze.
This would be e nice QA task or Release Goal for Jessie.