[gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

[Yanestra]

Hi,

I am long time user of Gentoo and I tinker with the idea of becoming
Gentoo developer.

I am a software developer by profession, but I am not quite sure if I
should involve with Gentoo ebuild development.

To be honest, I have not the slightest imagination what becoming a
Gentoo developer might mean. Things seem to be abhorringly complicated.

As far as I understand, there are developers, proxy developers, then
there is something like Project Sunrise which I don't understand.

There are apparently several different portage source repositories,
basing on different software, and furthermore, there is layman. As far
as I remember, portage is stored in cvs, where there is also git, and
somewhere subversion seems to linger.

And there is lots of documentation that appears to be outdated or
strangely unattached to questions concerning organisation and overall
structure.

Can someone please tell me where to start becoming a developer? Do there
exist something like quality guidelines for ebuilds?

Why is there such a chaos?

Thanks!