Hey All,
It appears that the Social Contract needs a bit of a clean-up. The first paragraph of the social contract is actually an introductory paragraph and was not meant to be part of the social contract itself. I recommend revising it to read:
"This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development team. Potential improvements to the social contract should be submitted to the Gentoo Linux bug tracker at https://bugs.gentoo.org, and assigned to gentoo-trustees. Specific questions about social contract, and discussion about potential future improvements can be posted to the gentoo-project mailing list."
I think this effectively modernizes the paragraph from the old days. In particular, a lot of people expect the social contract to not change radically so the idea of "comments are welcome" has been gone for many years. We are not actively soliciting feedback and tweaks but of course we have official channels for Social Contract discussion as well as a process for considering improvements to the Social Contract moving forward.
Best,