[gentoo-dev] Proposal: Social Contract change & What is "Gentoo" ?

[Sven Vermeulen]

When you take a look at our current social contract
(http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml) you will read that it talks
about "Gentoo Linux" exclusively. However, with Gentoo growing and non-Linux
ports in the make, it might be wise to change the naming from "Gentoo Linux"
to "Gentoo".

The main question however is: "What is Gentoo"? When will we talk about
"Gentoo" and when do we talk about "a project" that "the Gentoo Project" is
working on?

Based on the feedback I gathered from the managers meeting and from
developers, I'd like to propose something along the following lines:

"""
We call a collection of software "Gentoo" when:
- it in total is able to boot itself (self-hosting)
- it is actively developed by the Gentoo Project
- its main software management application is a native Portage
  
With "actively developed" it is meant that:
- the project has specific development/user channels (mailinglist & irc)
- the project is listed on the Gentoo Projects page [1]

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/index.xml?showlevel=2
"""

Any thoughts (both on the s/Gentoo Linux/Gentoo/ and Gentoo definition? I'm
sure there are lots of questions about the above proposal, so fire away.

Wkr,
      Sven Vermeulen

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