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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:08:37
Message-Id: 54DF64E6.1000303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help by "Andreas K. Huettel"
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4 On 13/02/2015 12:03 ??, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
5 >
6 > Hi all,
7 >
8 > I'm the only dev left in the vmware team who is taking care of
9 > VMware Workstation and friends. Or more precisely, not taking care
10 > of it these days, since my non-Gentoo workload is increasing and
11 > since VMware Workstation is not really the highest thing on my
12 > Gentoo priority list either (though I use it regularly).
13 >
14 > We could really need some help here... Things to do are e.g. *
15 > vmware-workstation, vmware-player, vmware-modules major version
16 > bump * tracking and applying patches to vmware-modules for newer
17 > kernels * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation ...
18 > :(
19 >
20 > We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user
21 > contributions.
22 >
23 > The only real alternative is to treeclean and tell people to use
24 > the bundled installer. No idea how well this works.
25 >
26 > Talk to me if interested...
27 >
28 > Best, Andreas
29 >
30
31 If you write a small item we can add it to the next GMN to reach a
32 wider audience. I see we already have a vmware entry at
33 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs/Vmware_developer
34 which is nice :)
35
36 - --
37 Regards,
38 Markos Chandras
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