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

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:48, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2004, at 16:11, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > """
> > 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
> > """
>
> A few remarks:
>
> - Makes no distinction between gentoo projects (such as keychain for
> instance), and gentoo operating systems (linux for instance, but not
> keychain).
> - Self-hosting does not mean being able to boot itself.
> (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Self-hosting)
> - Cannot be a secondary package manager != has to be only package
> manager
>
> My rewrite:
>
> """
> GENTOO
>
> The collection of:
>
>  - free knowledge such as documentation and metadata about
> concepts/domains relevant to operating systems and their components,
> created by Gentoo Developers.
>  - free software developed by Gentoo Developers.
>
> GENTOO OPERATING SYSTEM:
>
>  A Gentoo Operating System is an operating system that satisfies these
> requirements:
>
>   - Self-hosting: The operating system can build itself from scratch
> using the tools and metadata distributed as "Gentoo".
>
>  If a product associated with a Gentoo project does not satisfy these
> requirements the product does not qualify as a Gentoo Operating System.
>
> GENTOO PROJECT
>
>  A Gentoo Project is a project listed in the Gentoo Metastructure.
>  A product associated with a Gentoo Project does not need to qualify as
> a Gentoo Operating System for the project to qualify as a Gentoo
> Project.
>

I like this better too. For me a gentoo project is whatever projects are 
"officially" run by Gentoo. I think this description gives a good 
implementation of such an abstract notion and the additions make clear what a 
gentoo os is and how gentoo-macosx is a gentoo project, but not a gentoo 
operating system.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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