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Hi Everybody, |
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Last week I stepped down from the vmware herd, and since I was the only |
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member left, there are no more maintainers for the vmware packages in |
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the tree. The current packages are vmware-workstation, vmware-server, |
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vmware-player, vmware-modules, and open-vm-tools; and there are two more |
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that should probably be masked and removed (vmware-dsp and |
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vmware-gsx-console). |
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All emails being delivered to vmware@g.o and all bugs assigned to the |
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vmware herd are going unread. The software is effectively in the |
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maintainer-needed group, just with its own email address. |
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As such, for vmware to continue to be supported under Gentoo we need |
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some developers or new recruits to look after the packages. If you want |
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to help look after these packages, please contact me (off-list) and I'll |
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be happy to start training you in how the ebuilds/eclasses work and give |
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you guidance about how vmware packages their software. |
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If you're not a Gentoo developer yet, but are interested in becoming one |
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to look after the vmware packages, do also feel free to contact me and |
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we can look at getting you recruited. The sort of information you'll |
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need to become a Gentoo developer is available at [1], [2] and [3]. |
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The kinds of challenges you'll be dealing with are mostly kernel |
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related, ensuring that the modules are working with various gentoo |
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supported kernels, etc. The current vmware installer is written in |
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python, whilst previously a perl script was used, so knowledge of both |
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of these languages would be advantageous. |
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If you've got any other questions or comments, again feel free to |
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contact me. |
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Mike 5:) |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml |
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[3] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ |
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