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.
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| Timothy Redaelli | drizzt | Lead |
| Members from subproject bsd | ||
| Timothy Redaelli | drizzt | Lead ( Deputy lead ) |
| Peter Weller | welp | Lead |
| Alexis Ballier | aballier | Member |
| Javier Villavicencio | the_paya | Member |
| 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.
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. |
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 |
Resources offered by the gentoo-alt project are:
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).