[gentoo-dev-announce] The VMware packages are in need of a maintainer

[gentoo-dev-announce] The VMware packages are in need of a maintainer

[Mike Auty]

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Hi Everybody,

Last week I stepped down from the vmware herd, and since I was the only
member left, there are no more maintainers for the vmware packages in
the tree.  The current packages are vmware-workstation, vmware-server,
vmware-player, vmware-modules, and open-vm-tools; and there are two more
that should probably be masked and removed (vmware-dsp and
vmware-gsx-console).

All emails being delivered to vmware@g.o and all bugs assigned to the
vmware herd are going unread.  The software is effectively in the
maintainer-needed group, just with its own email address.

As such, for vmware to continue to be supported under Gentoo we need
some developers or new recruits to look after the packages.  If you want
to help look after these packages, please contact me (off-list) and I'll
be happy to start training you in how the ebuilds/eclasses work and give
you guidance about how vmware packages their software.

If you're not a Gentoo developer yet, but are interested in becoming one
to look after the vmware packages, do also feel free to contact me and
we can look at getting you recruited.  The sort of information you'll
need to become a Gentoo developer is available at [1], [2] and [3].

The kinds of challenges you'll be dealing with are mostly kernel
related, ensuring that the modules are working with various gentoo
supported kernels, etc.  The current vmware installer is written in
python, whilst previously a perl script was used, so knowledge of both
of these languages would be advantageous.

If you've got any other questions or comments, again feel free to
contact me.

Mike  5:)

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml
[3] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/
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