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Gentoo/Alt: Gentoo on alternate platforms

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1.  Project Description

Gentoo/Alt is a top-level project that manages efforts to support alternate Gentoo platforms and runtime environments. In many ways, gentoo-alt represents the "cutting edge" work that is being done to expand the capabilities and potential of Gentoo in general.

2.  Developers

Developer Nickname Role
Timothy Redaelli drizzt Lead
Members from subproject bsd
Timothy Redaelli drizzt Lead ( Deputy lead )
Peter Weller welp Lead
Members from subproject prefix
Jeremy Olexa darkside Developer ( hands on for many platforms )
Michael Haubenwallner haubi Developer ( bug fixer for many platforms )
Markus Duft mduft Developer ( Interix guy )
Fabian Groffen grobian Lead ( Prefix Portage and toolchain engineering, console applications )

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

3.  Subprojects

The gentoo-alt project has the following subprojects:

Project Lead Description
bsd Peter Weller Porting of Gentoo facilities on BSD systems
prefix Fabian Groffen Gentoo Prefix
Gentoo/Alt ATs Peter Weller The Gentoo/Alt AT project is devoted to helping developers with timeconsuming testing.

4.  Project tasks

The tasks of the gentoo-alt project are:

Tech documentation - A complete documentation for developers

To avoid that the missing of one of the devs makes difficult maintaining the project, all the technical documentation about Gentoo/Alt projects must be written and published, so that they are available to whoever wants to help.

Starting date: 2005-09-14

Alternate Prefix - Support for alternate prefixes for portage (finished)

To get Gentoo/Alt projects working on platforms where you are not able to change what is installed in base system (closed-source systems, for instance), a solution is to add support for alternate prefix installation in portage.

Starting date: 2005-11-11
Developer: grobian (Fabian Groffen) - member

5.  Resources

Resources offered by the gentoo-alt project are:

6.  Meetings

Here you can find all the logs of Gentoo/Alt meetings, ordered by date. The meetings are being held on request from project members and occours on #gentoo-alt (moderated if it's the case).



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Updated March 17, 2008

Summary: Provide Gentoo-way solutions for non-GNU/Linux platforms.

Diego Pettenò
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