Fwd: [covid] New Contributor for biohackathon

Dear DPMT members,

You may be aware that the Debian Med team is in the middle of a biohackathon [1] to provide better FOSS tools to the medical community for their work on the COVID-19 pandemic. We just had a new contributor package a Python module that we need for one of our packages. Since time is of the essence in these efforts, would you be willing/able to accept this package under your team and do a quick review? If you are unable to do a quick review, would you agree to have one of the DDs on the Debian Med team review the package and upload it with you as the maintainer? Thanks in advance for anything that you can do to support our efforts!

-Olek

PS I am subscribed to Debian Med but not to Debian Python

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon

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From: fancycade <fancycade@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:42 PM
Subject: [covid] New Contributor for biohackathon
To: debian-med@lists.debian.org <debian-med@lists.debian.org>

Hi there!

I would like to help out with the efforts of the biohackathon. Sadly I see I missed the jitsi meetings. I was busy making my first debian package. I have a pretty good understanding of the debian policy, but I'm sure there is room for improvement.

I was following the need for packaging the CHIME project which requires the streamlit package. After taking a look at the dependencies for streamlit I saw there were only a few missing packages. One of them being validators. Since this was a simple python module, I figured it would be a good first package to try my hand.

upstream: https://github.com/kvesteri/validators

I have submitted an ITP to the bug tracker

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956082

And have a building package on salsa:

https://salsa.debian.org/fancycade-guest/validators

At this point I think I need a review and someone to sponsor it. I have also submitted a request to join the Debian Python Modules team, but have not gotten a reply yet.

Thanks!

- Harley Swick