Project:Gentoo
This page lists all currently active projects in the Gentoo metastructure.
Additional Gentoo project data: lead election dates and GLEP 39 election date non-compliant projects.
3D Print (Project:3dprint)
The 3D Print Project handles all 3d print related activities in Gentoo.
Lead(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Dennis Lamm (Expeditioneer)
Member(s): Vadim Misbakh-Soloviov (mva)
AMD64 Development (Project:AMD64)
The AMD64 Project is devoted to providing stable, secure and up-to-date releases of Gentoo for the AMD64 and EM64T processor families.
Lead(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago)
Member(s): Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),Richard Freeman (rich0),Sam James (sam)
AMD64 Arch Testers (Project:AMD64 Arch Testers)
The Gentoo/AMD64 AT Project is devoted to help the developers with time-consuming testing.
Lead(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago)
ARM Development (Project:ARM)
The ARM Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the ARM architecture.
Lead(s): Sam James (sam)
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),John Helmert III (ajak),Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Yixun Lan (dlan),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Markus Meier (maekke),Steve Arnold (nerdboy),Mike Frysinger (vapier),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac),Rick Farina (zerochaos)
ARM64 Development (Project:ARM64)
The ARM64 project is devoted to getting and keeping Gentoo in good shape on the ARM AArch64 architecture.
Lead(s): Sam James (sam)
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Florian Schmaus (flow),Mart Raudsepp (leio),Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)
Accessibility Project (Project:Accessibility)
The Gentoo Accessibility Project provides a way for Gentoo developers in various teams to coordinate efforts to make Gentoo more accessible to users who have disabilities.
Lead(s): William Hubbs (williamh)
Member(s): Mart Raudsepp (leio)
Ada Project (Project:Ada)
This project provides support for Ada compilers and libraries in Portage. At present both a gnat compiler (gnat-gpl by AdaCore) and gcc (by FSF) are provided.
Lead(s): Alfredo Tupone (tupone),Steve Arnold (nerdboy)
Alpha Development (Project:Alpha)
The Gentoo/Alpha Arch Team is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the Alpha architecture.
Lead(s): Matt Turner (mattst88)
Gentoo Prefix on Android Devices (Project:Android)
Gentoo on Android aims to provide desktop experience on Android mobile devices. This project deploys Gentoo Prefix, a variant of Gentoo that installs in a directory prefix, along with Android, sharing the same Linux kernel.
Lead(s): Benda Xu (heroxbd)
Antivirus Project (Project:Antivirus)
The Antivirus Project maintains antivirus-related packages.
Member(s): Thomas Raschbacher (LordVan)
Apache Project (Project:Apache)
The Apache project is responsible for maintaining the Apache httpd server in Gentoo, and many of its modules. We also maintain a build infrastructure so that other modules may be easily added in a standard way to Apache.
Lead(s): Hans de Graaff (graaff)
Artwork (Project:Artwork)
The Artwork project manages Gentoo artwork and related assets. This includes wallpapers, logos, themes, icons.
Lead(s): Jonas Stein (jstein)
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Sebastian Pipping (sping)
Gentoo Asahi Project (Project:Asahi)
The Gentoo Asahi Project brings Gentoo Linux to Apple Silicon Mac devices.
Lead(s): Mart Raudsepp (leio)
Astronomy Project (Project:Astronomy)
The Astronomy Project handles astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Benda Xu (heroxbd),Jason Zaman (perfinion)
Base System (Project:Base)
The Base System Project provides an umbrella project for keeping system tools, libraries, and layout consistent for all the various architectures under Gentoo Linux.
Lead(s): Sam James (sam)
Member(s): Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Mike Gilbert (floppym),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Robin Johnson (robbat2),David Seifert (soap)
Binary (i.e., precompiled) package hosting (Project:Binhost)
The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, precompiled packages for a subset of configurations.
Lead(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Member(s): Yury German (blueknight),Eli Schwartz (eschwartz),Vadim Misbakh-Soloviov (mva),Sam James (sam)
Biology Project (Project:Biology)
The Biology Project handles all biology related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),David Seifert (soap)
Bug Wranglers (Project:Bug-wranglers)
Bug Wranglers elaborate how to proceed with bugs on the Gentoo bug tracker.
Lead(s): Jonas Stein (jstein)
Member(s): Mike Gilbert (floppym)
Bug cleaners (Project:Bug-cleaners)
The Gentoo Bug Cleaners project aims to clean up the oldest bugs in Bugzilla.
Member(s): Jonas Stein (jstein)
Gentoo Build Service (Project:Build Service)
Deploy privately a build service for building and testing Gentoo packages.
Member(s): Amy Liffey (amynka)
Catalyst Project (Project:Catalyst)
The Gentoo Catalyst Project develops and supports the Catalyst release building tool.
Member(s): James Le Cuirot (chewi),Ben Kohler (bkohler),Matt Turner (mattst88)
Chemistry Project (Project:Chemistry)
The Chemistry Project handles all chemistry related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Nicolas Bock (nicolasbock),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho)
Chromium in Gentoo Project (Project:Chromium)
The Chromium in Gentoo project manages the Chromium-related ebuilds within Gentoo.
Member(s): Mike Gilbert (floppym),Matt Jolly (Kangie)
Cjk (Project:Cjk)
Chinese/Japanese/Korean support packages.
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Yixun Lan (dlan),Akinori Hattori (hattya),Naohiro Aota (naota),WANG Xuerui (xen0n)
Cluster Project (Project:Cluster)
The Cluster Project handles both HPC and HA related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Marc Schiffbauer (mschiff),Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
Core libraries for gfx / audio / video formats (Project:Codec)
The codec project maintains core libraries for gfx / audio / video formats, partly in cooperation with other projects.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Michał Górny (mgorny),Sam James (sam)
Community Relations (Project:ComRel)
Community Relations handles many personnel-related tasks, solving conflicts and also ensuring that the Gentoo Code of Conduct and proper and professional behavior is followed across Gentoo's borders.
Lead(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Member(s): James Le Cuirot (chewi),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Joonas Niilola (juippis),Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Matt Turner (mattst88),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),David Seifert (soap)
Community Resources (Project:ComRes)
Community Resources is an umbrella project comprising the Recruiters, Retirement and Community Relations subprojects. It acts as a central place for all the human-resources related projects.
Common Lisp (Project:Common Lisp)
The Gentoo Common Lisp project handles Common Lisp related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Ulrich Müller (ulm),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Containers (Project:Containers)
The Contains Project provides minimal container images for a variety of container formats so that users can have a consistent experience when building application specific containers.
Member(s): John Helmert III (ajak),Ultrabug (ultrabug)
Gentoo Council (Project:Council)
The elected Gentoo Council decides on global issues and policies that affect multiple projects in Gentoo.
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Michał Górny (mgorny),Robin Johnson (robbat2),David Seifert (soap),Sam James (sam),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Crossdev Project (Project:Crossdev)
Crossdev is a small wrapper script around emerge to build cross-toolchains.
Member(s): Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Desktop Miscellaneous Project (Project:Desktop Miscellaneous)
Maintains various small utilities for X11 that do not fit any other category.
Lead(s): Jonas Stein (jstein)
Devmanual (Project:Devmanual)
The Devmanual subproject is tasked with maintaining and updating the Gentoo Development Guide https://devmanual.gentoo.org/
Member(s): Göktürk Yüksek (gokturk),Michael Palimaka (kensington),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),Sam James (sam),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Distribution Kernel (Project:Distribution Kernel)
Dist-kernel project maintains packages providing for zero-effort kernel install and upgrades
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Nowa Ammerlaan (Nowa),Sam James (sam)
Docker (Project:Docker)
The Docker project provides minimal docker images so that the Gentoo community can have a consistent experience when building application specific docker containers.
Member(s): Ultrabug (ultrabug),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster)
Dotnet (Project:Dotnet)
The Dotnet project handles new .NET related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Maciej Barć (xgqt)
ejabberd Project (Project:Ejabberd)
The ejabberd project maintains the ejabberd XMPP server software and its dependencies.
Member(s): Florian Schmaus (flow),Hanno Böck (hanno)
Elections (Project:Elections)
Gentoo Elections Project gathers all the information necessary to conduct elections in Gentoo.
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon),Robin Johnson (robbat2)
Electronics Project (Project:Electronics)
The Electronics Project handles all electronics related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Yixun Lan (dlan),Jason Zaman (perfinion),Thomas Beierlein (tomjbe)
elivepatch (Project:Elivepatch)
Flexible Distributed Linux Kernel Live Patching
Lead(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef)
Emacs (Project:Emacs)
The Emacs project handles Emacs and Elisp related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Lead(s): Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Member(s): Hans de Graaff (graaff),Mats Lidell (matsl)
Embedded Project (Project:Embedded)
The Embedded Project brings the flexibility of Gentoo to embedded systems. The project is responsible for overseeing the build infrastructure for creating images to be installed onto embedded systems.
Lead(s): Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Steve Arnold (nerdboy),Robin Johnson (robbat2),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)
Events (Project:Events)
The Free Software Community is colored with many happenings and events. Very important on such events is the availability of the major players, including distributions. This sub-project tries to cover all events where Gentoo can present itself.
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (chithanh)
Fonts (Project:Fonts)
The fonts project handles all fonts-related issues within the Gentoo project.
Member(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier),Guilherme Amadio (amadio),Jonas Stein (jstein)
Gentoo Linux Forums (Project:Forums)
The Gentoo Forums are a source of support for the Gentoo user community. It allows users to post support questions that can be answered by developers and other users alike.
Lead(s): Jimi Huotari (Chiitoo)
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),John R. Graham (john_r_graham),Anders Hellgren (kallamej),Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon)
Freedesktop Project (Project:Freedesktop)
Maintains projects produced by freedesktop.org
Member(s): Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm),Mike Gilbert (floppym),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),Jason Zaman (perfinion)
Gentoo Linux Enhancement Proposals (Project:GLEP)
The GLEP project manages Gentoo Linux Enhancement Proposals.
Member(s): Michał Górny (mgorny),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
GNOME Desktop (Project:GNOME)
The Gentoo Gnome Project aims to bring the current and complete GNOME desktop environment to Gentoo.
Lead(s): Mart Raudsepp (leio)
Member(s): Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho)
GNU Emacs (Project:GNU Emacs)
The GNU Emacs project handles GNU Emacs and related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Hans de Graaff (graaff),Matthew Smith (matthew),Ulrich Müller (ulm),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
GNUstep Project (Project:GNUstep)
The GNUstep Project maintains GNUstep environment (gnustep-base) and packages (gnustep-libs, gnustep-applications/)
Lead(s): Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur)
Member(s): Fabian Groffen (grobian)
Google Summer of Code (Project:GSoC)
The central project to unite efforts for Google Summer of Code participation
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Guilherme Amadio (amadio),Yury German (blueknight),Yixun Lan (dlan),Benda Xu (heroxbd),Michał Górny (mgorny),Sam James (sam)
GStreamer package maintainers (Project:GStreamer)
The GStreamer project maintains packages associated with the upstream GStreamer project and associated Gentoo tooling
Member(s): Mart Raudsepp (leio)
GURU (Project:GURU)
Ebuild repository entirely maintained by Gentoo users
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Eli Schwartz (eschwartz),Nowa Ammerlaan (Nowa),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)
Games Project (Project:Games)
The Games Project manages the game categories (dev-games, games-*) in Portage
Lead(s): James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Member(s): Conrad Kostecki (ConiKost),Ionen Wolkens (ionen),Jonas Stein (jstein),David Seifert (soap),Stefan Strogin (steils),Sam James (sam)
Genkernel (Project:Genkernel)
The Genkernel project handles the maintenance and development of sys-kernel/genkernel.
Lead(s): Robin Johnson (robbat2)
Member(s): Rick Farina (zerochaos)
Gentoo (Project:Gentoo)
A summary listing of all projects in the Gentoo metastructure.
Gentoo History (Project:Gentoo History)
Researching and documenting Gentoo's past.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Michał Górny (mgorny),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Gentoostats (Project:Gentoostats)
Gentoostats project maintains and develops the "gentoostats" statistics collection software for Gentoo machines
Lead(s): Göktürk Yüksek (gokturk)
Geosciences Project (Project:Geosciences)
The Geosciences Project handles all geosciences activities in Gentoo.
GitHub (Project:GitHub)
Support team for the Gentoo organization on GitHub and the related resources (mirrors, pull requests).
Member(s): Michael Palimaka (kensington),Michał Górny (mgorny),Jason Zaman (perfinion),David Seifert (soap)
Gentoo kernel Ci (Project:Gkernelci)
Gentoo kernel CI is a autonomous kernel building and testing system based on buildbot specifically tailored for Gentoo.
Lead(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef)
Member(s): Joonas Niilola (juippis)
Group Contacts (Project:Group Contacts)
Group Contacts for libera.chat administration
Lead(s): Joonas Niilola (juippis)
Member(s): Ben Kohler (bkohler),Sam James (sam)
HPPA Development (Project:HPPA)
The Gentoo HPPA project is designed to bring the Gentoo GNU/Linux operating system to the HP Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) platforms. We aim to provide a usable computing environment for your various HPPA related endeavors.
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Sam James (sam),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Handbook (Project:Handbook)
The Handbook project is responsible for maintaining Gentoo's official handbook.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),P.Fox (ris),Sam James (sam)
Hardened (Project:Hardened)
Hardened Gentoo is a project which oversees the research, implementation, and maintenance of security oriented projects for Gentoo Linux.
Lead(s): Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Kenton Groombridge (concord),Jason Zaman (perfinion),Matthew Thode (prometheanfire),Sam James (sam),William Hubbs (williamh)
Hardened uClibc (Project:Hardened uClibc)
This subproject aims to port both tool chain and kernel hardening to uClibc based systems for a variety of architectures. The project treats uClibc as an alternative to glibc, and not necessarily as "embedded". uClibc is no longer supported.
Lead(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness)
Member(s): Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Haskell (Project:Haskell)
Support Haskell programming language ecosystem on Gentoo systems.
Member(s): Mark Wright (gienah)
Gentoo Infrastructure (Project:Infrastructure)
The Gentoo Infrastructure project provides and develops services for the Gentoo developer and user community, ensuring availability, security, and functionality.
Lead(s): Robin Johnson (robbat2)
Member(s): John Helmert III (ajak),Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Yury German (blueknight),Michał Górny (mgorny),Matthew Thode (prometheanfire),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),Sam James (sam)
Installer (Project:Installer)
After many years of an installer being absent from Gentoo, it is time to start work on creating a perfect Gentoo installer.
Lead(s): Matthew Marchese (maffblaster)
Integrity, Compliance, and Reporting (Project:Integrity)
The integrity subproject aims to integrate and maintain technologies related to system integrity within Gentoo Hardened. Although initially focused on Linux IMA/EVM, this will extend towards other integrity, compliance and reporting technologies.
Lead(s): Jason Zaman (perfinion)
Java (Project:Java)
We maintain everything Java-related in Gentoo, that is, most of dev-java/* and also packages in categories like dev-util, www-servers etc.
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Florian Schmaus (flow),Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev)
KDE Project (Project:KDE)
The primary goal of the Gentoo KDE project is to provide support for all packages produced by the KDE Community.
Lead(s): Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm)
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Michael Palimaka (kensington),Marc Schiffbauer (mschiff),Sam James (sam)
Kerberos (Project:Kerberos)
The Gentoo Kerberos project aims to maintain kerberos related packages in Gentoo.
Member(s): Eray Aslan (eras)
Kernel Project (Project:Kernel)
The Kernel Project aims to deliver the best possible experience from its sources across all supported architectures.
Lead(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef)
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Mike Pagano (mpagano),Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
LDAP Project (Project:LDAP)
The LDAP Project maintains LDAP-related packages.
Member(s): Matt Jolly (Kangie),Matthew Thode (prometheanfire),Robin Johnson (robbat2)
LLVM (Project:LLVM)
Support project for LLVM, clang and the related packages.
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Sam James (sam)
Lemote Yeeloong Gentoo Desktop (Project:Lemote Yeeloong Gentoo Desktop)
The Lemote Yeeloong Gentoo Desktop aim to provide a ready to install XFCE4 base desktop to the Yeeloong netbook.
Lead(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness)
Licenses (Project:Licenses)
The Licenses project tries to make heads & tails of license terms.
Member(s): Hanno Böck (hanno),Jonas Stein (jstein),Robin Johnson (robbat2),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
LoongArch Development (Project:LoongArch)
The LoongArch Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the LoongArch architecture.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),WANG Xuerui (xen0n)
Lua Project (Project:Lua)
Lua language and library maintenace
Member(s): Vadim Misbakh-Soloviov (mva),Robin Johnson (robbat2),David Seifert (soap),Sam James (sam),William Hubbs (williamh)
m68k Development (Project:M68k)
The m68k Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the m68k architecture.
Lead(s): Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Member(s): James Le Cuirot (chewi)
MIPS Development (Project:MIPS)
Gentoo/MIPS is a port of the Gentoo GNU/Linux and the Gentoo Portage package management system to mips-based platforms.
Lead(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness)
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Joshua Kinard (kumba),WANG Xuerui (xen0n)
ML (Project:ML)
The ML Project maintains packages related to the ML programming language family.
Member(s): Alfredo Tupone (tupone),Sam James (sam),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Mathematics Project (Project:Mathematics)
The Mathematics Project handles all math related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Mark Wright (gienah),David Seifert (soap),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Metastructure Project (Project:Metastructure)
The metastructure toplevel project is concerned with the management structure of Gentoo.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Mozilla Project (Project:Mozilla)
Mozilla and related applications
Member(s): Joonas Niilola (juippis),Rick Farina (zerochaos)
musl (Project:Musl)
This subproject aims to port the hardened tool chain to musl based systems for a variety of architectures. The project treats musl as an alternative to glibc and uClibc, and not necessarily as "embedded".
Lead(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness)
Member(s): Jory A. Pratt (Anarchy),Petr Vaněk (arkamar),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Sam James (sam)
MySQL (Project:MySQL)
This project maintains MySQL and its derivatives
Member(s): Robin Johnson (robbat2)
Netifrc Project (Project:Netifrc)
This project is for the development and maintenance of the netifrc network configuration scripts
Lead(s): Robin Johnson (robbat2)
Member(s): William Hubbs (williamh)
Network monitoring and analysis project (Project:Netmon)
Maintaining network monitoring and analysis libraries and programs
Member(s): Sam James (sam),Mike Frysinger (vapier),Rick Farina (zerochaos)
Nim (Project:Nim)
The Nim project handles Nim programming language related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Office project (Project:Office)
The Office project manages the office implementations and related packages in Gentoo.
Member(s): Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
openQA in Gentoo (Project:OpenQA)
openQA in Gentoo - test Gentoo inside openQA.
OpenRC (Project:OpenRC)
OpenRC is a dependency based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally /sbin/init.
Lead(s): William Hubbs (williamh)
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Christian Ruppert (idl0r),Patrick Lauer (patrick),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Openstack (Project:Openstack)
Openstack is a virtualization orchestration suite that allows the creation and management of cloud infrastructures.
Lead(s): Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
Member(s): Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur)
The #gentoo Operators Project (Project:Ops)
The #gentoo (webchat) Operators project describes the tasks and policies carried out by the operators of the #gentoo channel on the Libera Chat network.
Member(s): Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon),Patrick Lauer (patrick),Matthias Maier (tamiko),Sam James (sam)
Overlays (Project:Overlays)
The Overlays project is responsible for the administration of the overlays and the overlays.gentoo.org / repos.gentoo.org websites.
Member(s): Florian Schmaus (flow),Göktürk Yüksek (gokturk),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Michael Palimaka (kensington),Sebastian Pipping (sping)
PHP (Project:PHP)
This project maintains PHP itself as well as the PHP extensions and libraries
Package Manager Specification (Project:Package Manager Specification)
The Package Manager Specification aims to document what is required of a Gentoo package manager, and what ebuilds may assume about their environment.
Lead(s): Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Member(s): David Seifert (soap)
Perl Project (Project:Perl)
We maintain everything perlish in Gentoo.
Lead(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Member(s): Sam James (sam)
Physics Project (Project:Physics)
The Physics Project handles all physics related activities in Gentoo.
Member(s): Guilherme Amadio (amadio),Nicolas Bock (nicolasbock)
PkgCore (Project:PkgCore)
The PkgCore Project is devoted to maintaining and updating the pkgcore stack, the other package manager for Gentoo and its ebuild format, and the tools based on it, which includes pkgcheck and pkgdev.
Lead(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)
Planet Gentoo (Project:Planet)
Planet Gentoo provides a central aggregation of developers' blogs, to keep users and other developers informed of what they are working on.
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Yury German (blueknight),Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Michael Palimaka (kensington)
Portage (Project:Portage)
The Portage Development Project is devoted to maintaining and updating Portages core functionality and utilities.
Lead(s): Zac Medico (zmedico)
Member(s): John Helmert III (ajak),James Le Cuirot (chewi),Mike Gilbert (floppym),Fabian Groffen (grobian),Michał Górny (mgorny),Robin Johnson (robbat2),Sam James (sam),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Portage Tools Team (Project:Portage-Tools)
The Portage Tools Team develops and maintains a number of tools that use Portage's APIs or perform actions relating to the maintenance of the Portage tree ecosystem.
Member(s): Christian Ruppert (idl0r),Zac Medico (zmedico)
PostgreSQL (Project:PostgreSQL)
This project is focused on maintaining ebuilds and utilities that are closely tied to PostgreSQL including PostgreSQL itself.
Lead(s): Aaron W. Swenson (titanofold)
Member(s): Patrick Lauer (patrick)
PowerPC Development (Project:PowerPC)
The PowerPC Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architecture.
Lead(s): Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev)
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Sam James (sam),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Gentoo Prefix (Project:Prefix)
To bring out the virtues of Gentoo on different operating systems, the Gentoo Prefix project develops and maintains a way of installing Gentoo systems in a non-standard location, designated by a "prefix".
Lead(s): Benda Xu (heroxbd)
Member(s): Guilherme Amadio (amadio),Fabian Groffen (grobian),Sam James (sam)
Printing Project (Project:Printing)
Printing related stuff in Gentoo, namely the net-print category and some extra stuff
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Matthias Maier (tamiko)
ProAudio Project (Project:ProAudio)
The ProAudio Project maintains professional audio applications and related libraries.
Member(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier),Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog),Andreas Schuerch (nativemad),Erik Mackdanz (stasibear),Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4)
eselect configuration and management tool (Project:Eselect)
eselect is Gentoo's modular framework for configuration and administration utilities.
Member(s): Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Webapps (Project:Webapps)
The web-apps team maintains web applications, an eclass to facilitate writing ebuilds for these packages, and the webapp-config tool.
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)
Prolog (Project:Prolog)
Maintains Prolog and logic programming language packages
Proxy Maintainers (Project:Proxy Maintainers)
Proxy Maintainers facilitates high quality user contributions and works to enhance user-developer cooperation in maintaining packages.
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm),John Helmert III (ajak),Amy Liffey (amynka),Petr Vaněk (arkamar),Craig Andrews (candrews),Conrad Kostecki (ConiKost),Eli Schwartz (eschwartz),Florian Schmaus (flow),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Ionen Wolkens (ionen),Jonas Stein (jstein),Joonas Niilola (juippis),Matthew Smith (matthew),David Seifert (soap),Matthias Maier (tamiko),Sam James (sam),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)
Public Relations (Project:Public Relations)
The Public Relations project improves Gentoo's visibility toward the rest of the world. We maintain a presence for Gentoo on various walled-garden web silos such as Facebook, Twitter/X, and various chat services (Matrix, Telegram, etc.)
Lead(s): Matthew Marchese (maffblaster)
Member(s): Arisu Tachibana (alicef),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Jonas Stein (jstein),Richard Freeman (rich0),Sebastian Pipping (sping)
Python (Project:Python)
The Python project maintains dev-lang/python and most of dev-python/*.
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Petr Vaněk (arkamar),Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Nowa Ammerlaan (Nowa),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),Matthew Thode (prometheanfire),Louis Sautier (sbraz),David Seifert (soap),Sebastian Pipping (sping),Sam James (sam)
Qt Project (Project:Qt)
The Qt project handles the Qt ebuilds available in Gentoo's repository and the qt overlay.
Member(s): Jimi Huotari (Chiitoo),Ionen Wolkens (ionen),Michael Palimaka (kensington)
Quality Assurance (Project:Quality Assurance)
The Gentoo Quality Assurance team
Lead(s): David Seifert (soap)
Member(s): Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm),Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Michał Górny (mgorny),Sam James (sam),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
RISC-V Development (Project:RISC-V)
Gentoo RISC-V architecture support project.
Lead(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Yixun Lan (dlan),Florian Schmaus (flow),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Göktürk Yüksek (gokturk),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Michael Orlitzky (mjo),Steve Arnold (nerdboy),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster),WANG Xuerui (xen0n)
ROS Project (Project:ROS)
The ROS Project maintains packages for the Robot Operating System.
Lead(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier)
RSBAC (Project:RSBAC)
This project manages the RSBAC support within Gentoo. This includes providing kernels with RSBAC support (loosely based on the hardened-sources), administration utilities to manage and write strong Gentoo-specific policies.
Lead(s): Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Radio (Project:Radio)
This project maintains packages related to sending and receiving radio transmissions.
Member(s): Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (chithanh),Thomas Beierlein (tomjbe),Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4),Rick Farina (zerochaos)
Developer Recruiters (Project:Recruiters)
The Recruiters subproject provides a central location for information about developer recruitment and recruiter policy.
Member(s): Göktürk Yüksek (gokturk),Joonas Niilola (juippis)
Release Engineering (Project:RelEng)
Release Engineering ("RelEng") is the official Gentoo project focused on coordinating and improving the creation of official media releases of Gentoo Linux and the associated tools used by the installation process.
Member(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness),James Le Cuirot (chewi),Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),Ben Kohler (bkohler),Matt Turner (mattst88),Robin Johnson (robbat2),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
RelEng GRS (Project:RelEng GRS)
The Gentoo Reference System (GRS) Suite is a set of tools for building and maintaining a well defined Gentoo system in which all choices in building the system are predefined in configuration files housed on a central git repository.
Lead(s): Anthony G. Basile (blueness)
Repository mirror and CI (Project:Repository mirror and CI)
The repo-mirror-ci project aims to run basic QA checks on all listed Gentoo repositories and provide syncing mirrors for them (with pre-generated metadata cache).
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Retirement (Project:Retirement)
The Community Relations Retirement project handles developer retirement, both when developers announce their retirement as well as due to developer inactivity.
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Joonas Niilola (juippis),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),Sam James (sam)
Ruby Project (Project:Ruby)
The Ruby project maintains packages for Ruby implementations, libraries and development tools. This project also maintains the RubyGems package, the de facto standard for packaging Ruby projects.
Lead(s): Hans de Graaff (graaff)
Member(s): Naohiro Aota (naota),Robin Johnson (robbat2),Sam James (sam)
Rust Project (Project:Rust)
The Rust Project maintains the Rust toolchain and its related packages.
Lead(s): Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev)
Member(s): Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)
s390 Development (Project:S390)
The s390 Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the s390 architecture.
Lead(s): Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),Sam James (sam)
SELinux (Project:SELinux)
This project manages SELinux support in Gentoo. This includes providing kernels with SELinux support, providing patches to userland utilities, writing strong Gentoo-specific default profiles, and maintaining a good default set of policies.
Lead(s): Jason Zaman (perfinion)
Member(s): Kenton Groombridge (concord)
SPARC Development (Project:SPARC)
Gentoo/SPARC is a Gentoo project designed to bring the Gentoo GNU/Linux operating system to the SPARC and UltraSPARC platforms. Gentoo/SPARC aims to provide a usable server and desktop environment for your various SPARC related endeavors.
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam),Sam James (sam),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Samba (Project:Samba)
This project maintains packages related to Samba suite.
Member(s): Ben Kohler (bkohler),David Seifert (soap)
Sandbox Team (Project:Sandbox)
The Sandbox Team maintains sandbox-related tools and libraries
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Mike Gilbert (floppym),Fabian Groffen (grobian),David Seifert (soap),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Scheme (Project:Scheme)
The Scheme project handles Scheme related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Amy Liffey (amynka),Arsen Arsenović (arsen),Akinori Hattori (hattya),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Science Project (Project:Science)
The Science project manages science and mathematics related activities in Gentoo
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Guilherme Amadio (amadio),Amy Liffey (amynka),Benda Xu (heroxbd),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Nicolas Bock (nicolasbock),Nowa Ammerlaan (Nowa),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),David Seifert (soap),Matthias Maier (tamiko),Sam James (sam),Maciej Barć (xgqt)
Security Project (Project:Security)
The Security Project's mission is to ensure that vulnerabilities in software accessible through the Portage tree are found and fixed in a timely manner, so that our users remain protected against known vulnerabilities.
Lead(s): John Helmert III (ajak)
Member(s): Hans de Graaff (graaff),Sam James (sam)
Shell Tools Project (Project:Shell Tools)
Maintains miscellaneous tools used from within a shell environment.
Member(s): Benda Xu (heroxbd)
Sound project (Project:Sound)
The sound team provides and maintains sound applications and drivers.
Member(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier),Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog),Jonas Stein (jstein),David Seifert (soap),Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4)
Sysadmin Project (Project:Sysadmin)
The Sysadmin Project maintains various system administration packages.
Member(s): Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Christian Ruppert (idl0r),Robin Johnson (robbat2)
systemd (Project:Systemd)
The Gentoo systemd project aims to bring Gentoo users the best experience in using systemd as an sysvinit/OpenRC alternative.
Lead(s): Mike Gilbert (floppym)
Member(s): Georgy Yakovlev (gyakovlev),William Hubbs (williamh)
TeX Project (Project:TeX)
The Gentoo TeX project maintains ebuilds for TeXLive and TeX related packages. This includes app-text/texlive, the dev-texlive category, most of dev-tex and a few others.
Lead(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier)
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Florian Schmaus (flow),Sam James (sam),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Themes (Project:Themes)
Maintains generic themes for X11
Member(s): Conrad Kostecki (ConiKost),Jonas Stein (jstein)
Tinderbox cluster (Project:Tinderbox-cluster)
A tinderbox that the guest code can run on multiple setups.
Lead(s): Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Toolchain Project (Project:Toolchain)
Manages gcc/binutils/glibc and other toolchain-related packages
Lead(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
Member(s): Arsen Arsenović (arsen),Mike Gilbert (floppym),David Seifert (soap),Matthias Maier (tamiko),Sam James (sam),WANG Xuerui (xen0n),Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Treecleaner (Project:Treecleaner)
The Tree Cleaning Team is primarily concerned with removing unmaintained and broken packages from the tree.
Member(s): Florian Schmaus (flow),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Michał Górny (mgorny),Francisco (Pacho) Ramos (Pacho),David Seifert (soap),Sam James (sam)
VA-API (Project:VA-API)
The Gentoo VA-API Project maintains packages related to the Video Acceleration API.
Lead(s): Matt Turner (mattst88)
Member(s): Conrad Kostecki (ConiKost)
VDR project (Project:VDR)
The Video Disk Recorder (VDR) Project maintains and updates the VDR packages in the Gentoo ebuild repository. It integrates them with Gentoo as tight as possible.
Video Project (Project:Video)
The Video team strives to provide users with the best multimedia experience through providing encoding tools and media players. We do so by maintaining various video based applications including MPlayer, Xine, and Transcode.
Lead(s): Luca Barbato (lu_zero)
Member(s): Alexis Ballier (Aballier),Thomas Raschbacher (LordVan),Stefan Strogin (steils)
Vim Project (Project:Vim)
The Vim Project maintains Vim-related packages.
Member(s): Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Virtualization Project (Project:Virtualization)
The Virtualization Project maintains packages shared between the different virtualization (sub-)projects and provides documentation and tools to the user to make Gentoo a first choice platform as both host and guest system.
Member(s): John Helmert III (ajak),Yixun Lan (dlan),Joonas Niilola (juippis),Luca Barbato (lu_zero),Matthias Maier (tamiko),Sam James (sam),Mike Frysinger (vapier),Viorel Munteanu (ceamac),WANG Xuerui (xen0n)
VoIP (Project:VoIP)
Voice over Internet Protocol
Vulkan (Project:Vulkan)
The Gentoo Vulkan Project maintains packages related to the Vulkan API.
Member(s): Matt Turner (mattst88),Nick Sarnie (sarnex)
Website maintainers (Project:Website)
The website project maintains www.g.o and develops new sites for the community.
Member(s): Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge),Matthew Marchese (maffblaster)
Wiki (Project:Wiki)
The wiki project oversees and governs the community and the content under the wiki.gentoo.org domain.
Lead(s): Matthew Marchese (maffblaster)
Member(s): Michał Górny (mgorny),P.Fox (ris),Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Wine (Project:Wine)
Maintenance of Wine and Wine-related Packages
Lead(s): Ionen Wolkens (ionen)
Member(s): Jimi Huotari (Chiitoo),Nick Sarnie (sarnex),Mike Frysinger (vapier)
wxWidgets Project (Project:WxWidgets)
The wxWidgets Project maintains wxGTK and wxPython related packages and applications.
Member(s): Arsen Arsenović (arsen),Mart Raudsepp (leio)
X11 Project (Project:X11)
The X11 project manages the X implementations and related packages in Portage.
Lead(s): Matt Turner (mattst88)
Member(s): Nick Sarnie (sarnex)
x86 Development (Project:X86)
The x86 Project works to keep Gentoo the most up to date and secure x86 distribution available.
Member(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago),Jakov Smolić (jsmolic),Andreas Schuerch (nativemad),Sam James (sam)
x86 Arch Testers (Project:X86 Arch Testers)
The Arch Testers team is responsible with helping x86 devs testing packages which are to be marked stable. Arch testers are respected members of the community which the x86 team has recognized as being reliable and trustworthy.
Lead(s): Agostino Sarubbo (ago)
Member(s): Markus Meier (maekke),Andreas Schuerch (nativemad)
XEmacs (Project:XEmacs)
The XEmacs project handles XEmacs and related packages in the Gentoo package tree.
Member(s): Mats Lidell (matsl)
Xen Project (Project:Xen)
The Xen Project maintains packages related to Xen.
Member(s): Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy),Yixun Lan (dlan),Florian Schmaus (flow)
Xfce Project (Project:Xfce)
The Xfce Project aims to bring the current and complete Xfce desktop environment to Gentoo.
Lead(s): Michał Górny (mgorny)
Member(s): Patrick McLean (chutzpah),Jason Zaman (perfinion)