This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development team. Parts of this document have been derived from the [Debian Social Contract](https://www.debian.org/social_contract). It is generally very similar to it except that certain parts have been clarified and augmented while other parts deemed redundant have been removed. Comments are welcome. Please send them to our [gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org](mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org) mailing list.

This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development team. Parts of this document have been derived from the [Debian Social Contract](https://www.debian.org/social_contract). Comments are welcome. Please send them to our [gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org](mailto:gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org) mailing list.