On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:31:31 -0800 (PST)
Sankar Tanguturi <stanguturi(a)vmware.com> 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#In...).
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.