Project:Base

Has Name::Base System
Description	Has Description::The Base System Project provides an umbrella project for keeping the system tools, libraries, compilers and layout consistent for all the various architectures under Gentoo Linux.
Project email	Has Contact::base-system@gentoo.org
IRC channel	#gentoo-base
Lead(s)	SMW::off Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) base-system team lead SMW::on Last elected: Has Lead Election Date::2019/05/05
Member(s)	SMW::off Doug Goldstein (Cardoe) Misc stuff that needs to get done Tony Vroon (Chainsaw) LILO Patrick McLean (chutzpah) Misc stuff that needs to get done Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge) Misc stuff, toolchain Mike Gilbert (floppym) Luca Barbato (lu_zero) Matt Turner (mattst88) Robin Johnson (robbat2) Specialized block devices and lots of other miscellaneous stuff Mike Frysinger (vapier) Thomas Deutschmann (Whissi) Version bumps and security stabilizations William Hubbs (williamh) Misc stuff that needs to get done Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene) Minor stuff doer (bumps/security/stabilization) SMW::on
Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s))	SMW::off AMD64 Development ARM Development Alpha Development Embedded Project HPPA Development IA-64 Development MIPS Development OpenRC PowerPC Development RISC-V development project SPARC Development Toolchain Project m68k Development s390 Development x86 Architecture Development SMW::on
Parent Project	Gentoo
Project listing

Gentoo Base System aims to provide a consistency in compilers, toolchains, filesystem layouts and startup scripts across all the architectures which Gentoo Linux supports. We try to provide maximum usability and flexibility to allow for porting to any architecture supported by the Linux kernel. The relevant categories in portage with which we are concerned include sys-apps, sys-boot, sys-devel, sys-fs, and sys-libs. However, we do not hold exclusive jurisdiction over any of the categories.

Goals

To provide a set of stable and secure system-level applications and libraries. The most visible and obvious among them: baselayout and the initscript system, gcc, gcc-config, binutils, glibc, and boot loaders

Participation

We are always willing to talk to talented programmers and people familiar with the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU libc, binutils, our rc/init system or developers with an advanced knowledge of a specific architecture to improve the speed and stability of Gentoo Linux on any or all of our platforms.

Please contact base-system@gentoo.org or join our IRC channel on freenode to talk with us. If you would like more information on a particular architecture, please click the appropriate e-mail link in the table and contact the personnel of that particular architecture. Additionally contact the recruiters.

Rules and limitations

To provide some level of backwards compatibility for Gentoo installations that were not updated for a longer period, we usually refrain from bumping our packages to latest EAPIs immediately. Our rule of thumb is to wait approximately one year after introduction of a new EAPI until we adopt it for our packages.

EAPI Version	Introduced in unstable	Can be used in base-system unstable	Introduced in stable	Can be used in base-system stable
EAPI-6	17 Nov 2015	17 Nov 2016	Jan 2016	Jan 2017
EAPI-7	6 May 2018	6 May 2019	Jun 2018	Jun 2019

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