On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:31:31 -0800 (PST) Sankar Tanguturi <stanguturi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am interested in becoming a Fedora package maintainer. I was > checking the wiki pages about the 'Fedora Package Maintainers' and > found the secion 'Introduce > Yourself' (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Introduce_yourself). > I thought I should send out this email and introduce myself. Welcome! > I am 'Sankar Tanguturi'. I work as 'Member of Technical Staff' in > 'platform-group' at 'VMware INC, Palo Alto'. Our team takes care of > 'VMware Tools' [1] components that run inside the virtual machine. > 'VMware Tools' is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance > of the virtual machines' guest operating system and improves > management of the virtual machine. This suite includes 'VMware Tools > service', 'VMware device drivers', 'VMware User process' and 'VMware > Tools control panel. 'VMware' released a large portion of VMware > Tools for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD guests under GPL and > GPL-compatible licenses. These components are publicly available as > an open source project under the name 'Open Virtual Machine > Tools' [2]. We are planning to upstream a major part of 'Open Virtual > Machine Tools' project in RHEL 7.0. You can check > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883614 for more > information about our plan for upstreaming. We would like to maintian > a package for this in Fedora. Sadly that bug doesn't seem to be accessable. ;( If it's licensing is ok and it's useful for Fedora folks, it should be just fine. The exception might be if there are any kernel modules involved. Those would be better submitted to the upstream kernel and we will get them when they land there. Good luck.
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