Wanted: New maintainer for binary packages in Debian

[Benjamin Gilbert]

Hi all,

The Debian Med team, which is responsible for the binary packages of
OpenSlide and OpenSlide Python in Debian, is looking for help keeping those
packages up to date.  This is a great, low-time-commitment way to help
OpenSlide users on Debian and Ubuntu.  Quoting Andreas Tille from Debian
Med:

> For sure any help of a person somehow connected to OpenSlide is welcome
> since I expect way more sensible testing than I could provide.  I do not
> mind whether this person is from developers or users side.  The knowledge
> requirements are some Git/SVN skills, knowing a bit about make and
> patches.

Debian Med has a mentorship process [1] to help you get started.  Package
maintainers are typically responsible for:

- Updating the package when a new release comes out (infrequent in
  OpenSlide's case)
- Updating the package to comply with changes in the Debian packaging policy
  (also pretty infrequent, in my experience)
- Addressing any bugs in the packaging itself

If you're interested, reply here or in the bug report [2], which is at
<bug number>@bugs.debian.org.

I'd like to extend my gratitude to Mathieu Malaterre, who created the Debian
packages for both OpenSlide and OpenSlide Python and has maintained them for
the past four and a half years.  Thanks, Mathieu!

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/814222

--Benjamin Gilbert