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Andreas, |
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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). |
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Yury German |
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GLSA Coordinator |
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Gentoo Security Team |
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Email: blueknight@g.o |
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PGP/GPG Key ID: 8902 1D26 2C89 6FC4 A819 982C 06C1 1799 3500 1B8 |
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> On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm the only dev left in the vmware team who is taking care of VMware |
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> Workstation and friends. Or more precisely, not taking care of it these days, |
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> since my non-Gentoo workload is increasing and since VMware Workstation is not |
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> really the highest thing on my Gentoo priority list either (though I use it |
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> regularly). |
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> We could really need some help here... Things to do are e.g. |
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> * vmware-workstation, vmware-player, vmware-modules major version bump |
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> * tracking and applying patches to vmware-modules for newer kernels |
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> * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation |
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> ... :( |
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> We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. |
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> The only real alternative is to treeclean and tell people to use the bundled |
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> installer. No idea how well this works. |
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> Talk to me if interested... |
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> Best, |
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> Andreas |
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> Andreas K. Huettel |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> perl, office, comrel, council |
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