Shelnutt2
06-10-11, 03:14 PM
I know a lot of us here use wine, but I'm not sure how many do any development with it. I watch the devel-mailing list and I've done some dabbing. Sadly one of our own has passed way. Greg van Geldorp worked for vmware. VMware started a good relationship with Wine when they adapted some of wine's D3D to OGL handling to support D3D inside a WM. Greg's largest and most profound impact was when he setup the WineTestBot. It's a server hosting dozens of VMs and windows installations. It has a front end so that developers can upload a .zip or .exe and get the results. This is great for testing patches and conformation. Often its difficult to tell how windows handles a certain event, especially across all the versions because of of the wine devs don't have any windows license. This testbot allowed for Windows 98-Server 2008 to be tested.
Also this testbot included Marvin, your friendly neighborhood android which watched the wine-patches mailing list and ran the test in one of the vms. This automation really helped accelerate and easy the testing of patches and changes to wine.
For more information I've quoted the email that was just sent.
Hi,
The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed away. Please find below the mail from his brother.
I've briefly talked to Jeremy and Alexandre about this loss and the idea came up to have something on the winehq frontpage for a while. Jeremey also mentioned to mark Greg's life and contributions to Wine at Wineconf this year. Alexandre mentioned potentially hosting the winetestbot at codeweavers in the future. Both the frontpage remembrance and the potential hosting somewhere else has been discussed by me and Arno and will not be an issue.
Cheers,
Paul.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Ge van Geldorp
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:05:46 +0200
From: Erven Gé van Geldorp <erven.van.geldorp@gmail.com>
To: 'Paul Vriens' <paul.vriens.wine@gmail.com>
Hi all,
My name is Arno van Geldorp. I’m the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp. I’m very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away almost 3 weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a very aggressive form.
I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of them is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn’t have the time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make sure that the server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted for at least 2 more years. So we will take care of that. But I don’t know if anyone took over the administration off the server.
If anyone took over the administration from Greg could you please contact me at erven.van.geldorp at gmail.com
Kind regards,
Arno van Geldorp
Also this testbot included Marvin, your friendly neighborhood android which watched the wine-patches mailing list and ran the test in one of the vms. This automation really helped accelerate and easy the testing of patches and changes to wine.
For more information I've quoted the email that was just sent.
Hi,
The sad news reached me two days ago that Ge (Greg) van Geldorp passed away. Please find below the mail from his brother.
I've briefly talked to Jeremy and Alexandre about this loss and the idea came up to have something on the winehq frontpage for a while. Jeremey also mentioned to mark Greg's life and contributions to Wine at Wineconf this year. Alexandre mentioned potentially hosting the winetestbot at codeweavers in the future. Both the frontpage remembrance and the potential hosting somewhere else has been discussed by me and Arno and will not be an issue.
Cheers,
Paul.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Ge van Geldorp
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:05:46 +0200
From: Erven Gé van Geldorp <erven.van.geldorp@gmail.com>
To: 'Paul Vriens' <paul.vriens.wine@gmail.com>
Hi all,
My name is Arno van Geldorp. I’m the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp. I’m very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away almost 3 weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a very aggressive form.
I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of them is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn’t have the time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make sure that the server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted for at least 2 more years. So we will take care of that. But I don’t know if anyone took over the administration off the server.
If anyone took over the administration from Greg could you please contact me at erven.van.geldorp at gmail.com
Kind regards,
Arno van Geldorp