To clarify, the expected work for me here is bringing the existing packaging up to Debian standards as well as adapting the packaging and possibly the software to a less tightly integrated environment than elementary OS. I have extensive connections in the upstream project so fixing the code should not be an issue, although I don't expect much work on code itself because it's already quite modular.
Despite extensive experience with Debian/Ubuntu packaging I'm not familiar with Debian procedures and conventions, so I'll probably have a lot of ground to cover there as well. I'd be willing to maintain the software in Debian repositories after the fact, as I already did in elementary itself.
Where could I find anybody interested in mentoring this kind of project? I've asked on #debian-soc and was directed here.
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff