FreeBSD Development Model - Overview FreeBSD development continues along two parallel branches; FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. FreeBSD-CURRENT is the main trunk of our CVS repository. All new development should happen here. FreeBSD-STABLE is the branch from which major releases are made. Changes enter this branch at a different pace, and with the general assumption that they have been well tested by our user community running -CURRENT. FreeBSD Development Model - The Team Thousands of developers around the world contribute code to FreeBSD. Only the committers have write access to the CVS repository. 353 total committers in FreeBSD (includes source, documentation, and ports committers). 181 active committers to src/ (excluding sys) in the last 12 months. 147 active committers to src/sys in the last 12 months. FreeBSD Development Model - Handling Bugs Users and external developers do not have CVS access, they can submit bug fixes, enhancements, or problem reports using the GNATS database. Online submission forms, send-pr command installed by default on FreeBSD systems, etc.