Self Introduction

[Sankar Tanguturi]

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.

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.

I don't have much experience with the installers/packages. I just started checking out wiki pages in 'fedoraproject.org'. So far, all the wikis were very useful to set up my build environment and I was able to write a basic SPEC file and get an initial version of RPM built. Soon, I will send out the work for review.

Hope this is a good 'self introduction' about what we are working.

[1] - http://bit.ly/VDRzX9
[2] - http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/faq.php

-Thanks
Sankar Aditya Tanguturi