Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Yury German <blueknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:39:29
Message-Id: 75917A0C-4179-4B3F-ABAD-464180010EBD@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 Andreas,
2
3 I can only attempt. I am not a good programer more of a security person. I am in the process of taking my dev tests now. But if I was going to help maintain anything VmWare would be a prime example since I use it extensively for work (although on Mac).
4
5 ________________
6 Yury German
7 GLSA Coordinator
8 Gentoo Security Team
9 Email: blueknight@g.o
10
11 PGP/GPG Key ID: 8902 1D26 2C89 6FC4 A819 982C 06C1 1799 3500 1B8
12
13 > On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
14 >
15 >
16 > Hi all,
17 >
18 > I'm the only dev left in the vmware team who is taking care of VMware
19 > Workstation and friends. Or more precisely, not taking care of it these days,
20 > since my non-Gentoo workload is increasing and since VMware Workstation is not
21 > really the highest thing on my Gentoo priority list either (though I use it
22 > regularly).
23 >
24 > We could really need some help here... Things to do are e.g.
25 > * vmware-workstation, vmware-player, vmware-modules major version bump
26 > * tracking and applying patches to vmware-modules for newer kernels
27 > * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation
28 > ... :(
29 >
30 > We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions.
31 >
32 > The only real alternative is to treeclean and tell people to use the bundled
33 > installer. No idea how well this works.
34 >
35 > Talk to me if interested...
36 >
37 > Best,
38 > Andreas
39 >
40 > --
41 > Andreas K. Huettel
42 > Gentoo Linux developer
43 > perl, office, comrel, council
44 >
45 >

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature