Ok, the pipeline is launched. Thanks for the invitation ;) I would not say that I'm very involved, actually. If I can help, I'm glad, but if I don't have to, I'm happy :) If you have difficulties with something, drop me an email.
As for the pipeline, it failed, because it seems that there is no pristine-tar branch in the git. I thought that you were using git-buildpackage, but maybe I'm wrong? Mt