Project:Forums

The Forums are a main source of contact for the user community to interact with the Gentoo developer community as well as other users. The primary purpose of the Forums is for users to post support questions. Many developers use the Forums to recruit testers for their packages and to make community announcements. Security vulnerabilities (GLSA) are also announced and archived. There is a collection of FAQs that covers installation and administration of Gentoo Linux.

Roles
There are four main roles within the Forums project listed in the table below:

Participation
Moderators are recruited from the Forums user community. There is a list of qualities that are used as factors in the candidate selection:


 * Report Guideline violations
 * Threads/posts that need to be moved to a different subforum
 * Demonstrate a professional attitude and willingness to help

New Moderators are selected on an as-needed basis. Candidates are chosen by consensus and asked to participate. Architecture specific Moderators are usually selected from the pool of Developers that are assigned to that arch team. All Moderators must read and follow the Forum Guidelines.

You can also help out with translations on the Forums, see the Translator Guidelines for more information.

You can contact us by posting questions in the Gentoo Forums Feedback forum, via e-mail or  on Libera.Chat.

Account removal requests
Due to the damage deleting an account does to the database, we do not delete accounts that have been used. Instead we offer account anonymization:


 * 1) The user name is changed to the database ID of the account.
 * 2) The email address is changed to forum-mods@gentoo.org
 * 3) The password is set to a long random string.
 * 4) Any IM contact details are removed.
 * 5) The signature is removed.
 * 6) The avatar is deleted..
 * 7) The account is disabled
 * 8) The profile website is removed.

We also email the original address on the account confirming that the above actions have been taken.