Please remove me and Larry Finger from the Virtualbox maintainers
On Friday 2024-09-20 17:18, Larry Len Rainey wrote:
Please remove me and Larry Finger from the Virtualbox maintainers
I am not a programmer and cannot follow any of the things in building Virtualbox. [...] I will be available to test VirtualBox builds if someone takes it over. I have 35 virtualbox machines (all flavors of Linux and Windows) and both a Tumbleweed and Leap host to test with.
I have sent two requests along your way, one for maintainer status, and one for the Virtualbox 7.1-qt6 update itself. I did a quick test with a FreeBSD 14 textmode guest and a soundcard exercise, and that seems to check out.
Hi Larry, even though I am not a virtualbox user any more since quite some years, I have always admired the effort Larry Finger spent maintaining it for the openSUSE community. I also highly appreciate that you offered to take over this task and tried your best after Larry passed away. I am a bit ashamed that I could not free up enough time to help you with it. So the logical next step is thanking Jan who stepped up to keep virtualbox alive for openSUSE. Am 20.09.24 um 17:18 schrieb Larry Len Rainey:
Sorry but Larry Finger did not pass enough knowledge to me to maintain the code. I did go thru line by line on all the patches he did. I have no idea how he figured out what to change.
Just for the record and for those who did not already know: This is nothing to be ashamed of, looking at the sheer size of the Virtualbox code is a humiliating experience on its own ;-)
Larry Rainey
I will be available to test VirtualBox builds if someone takes it over. I have 35 virtualbox machines (all flavors of Linux and Windows) and both a Tumbleweed and Leap host to test with.
I am pretty sure this will be very helpful to Jan whenever he does an update or other changes to the code. Thanks again to both of you -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman
On 21.09.24 08:19 Stefan Seyfried via openSUSE Factory wrote:
even though I am not a virtualbox user any more since quite some years, I have always admired the effort Larry Finger spent maintaining it for the openSUSE community. I also highly appreciate that you offered to take over this task and tried your best after Larry passed away.
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I am a bit ashamed that I could not free up enough time to help you with it. So the logical next step is thanking Jan who stepped up to keep virtualbox alive for openSUSE.
Thanks again to both of you
Well said, Seife. I fully second that and add my thanks to both Larry and Jan. Have a nice weekend, everyone! Johannes
Dear Larry, thank you so much for your efforts to take over Virtualbox from Larry. Its sad he passed away. Am Freitag, 20. September 2024, 17:18:20 MESZ schrieb Larry Len Rainey:
I am not a programmer and cannot follow any of the things in building Virtualbox.
Me neither
There are 120,000 files and I cannot follow what it does.
Larry Finger died 4 months ago - he cannot answer any bugzilla anymore. I have no idea how to fix any bugzilla entries that are legit.
I am 73 years old and cannot follow the multitude of tests and patches that are needed to build VirtualBox in OBS.
I have enough knowledge to build it locally and it works fine from the rpm's I built, but the contortions needed for OBS are beyond my abilities.
As said, I'm not a C++ programmer myself, but I know a little about OBS, so I would be happy to support you there. Cheers Axel
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Axel Braun -
Jan Engelhardt -
Johannes Kastl -
Larry Len Rainey -
Stefan Seyfried