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<p>The FreeBSD Ports Management Team (also known as <tt>portmgr</tt>
due to its email alias) is responsible for issues relating to the
<a href="&base;/ports">FreeBSD Ports Collection</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="charter.html">Charter</a></h3>
<p>Discusses the goals, rights, and responsibilities of the team.
The contents of this document are approved by the FreeBSD
Core Team.</p>
<h3><a href="policies.html">Policies</a></h3>
<p>Discusses current policies that the team has adopted to meet
its goals, such as
<a href="policies_contributors.html">timeouts for inactivity</a> and
<a href="policies_committing.html">when commits are allowed</a>.
Also contains <a href="policies_eol.html">the policy for supported
releases and branches</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="implementation.html">Implementation Issues</a></h3>
<p>Discusses how that the way that the Ports Collection is implemented
affects the above policies, and, in particular, such concepts as
<a href="implementation.html#requires_regression_test">
changes that require regression tests</a>
and
<a href="implementation.html#sweeping_changes">sweeping changes</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="qa.html">Quality Assurance Activities</a></h3>
<p>A behind-the-scenes look at the efforts that are made to ensure that
the Ports Collection works as well as it possibly can.</p>
<h3>Team Members</h3>
<p><a href="mailto:portmgr@FreeBSD.org">portmgr@FreeBSD.org</a>:
&a.portmgr;</p>
<p>Secretary: &a.tabthorpe; (<a href="mailto:portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org"
>portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</a>)</p>
<h3>Resources Of Interest To FreeBSD Contributors and Developers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/index.html">
Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</a><br/>
<small>An introduction to how you can help contribute to the Ports
Collection, by either contributing new ports or helping to fix
problems in existing ports. Included is detailed information on
what the community will expect from you if you volunteer to maintain
one or more ports. Also includes a list of <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/resources.html">
further resources</a>.</small>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">
FreeBSD Porter's Handbook</a><br/>
<small>The central reference book for FreeBSD ports submitters,
maintainers, and committers, mostly technically oriented. It
includes both mandatory requirements and recommendations of
what portmgr believes are the best approaches to common problems.
one or more ports. Also includes information about <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/keeping-up.html">
keeping with changes</a> as well.</small></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD Ports Build
Cluster</a><br/>
<small>These machines continually build packages on all possible
combinations of OS release and CPU architecture (in our terminology,
<tt>build environments</tt>), and produce error logs of problems
that are encountered along the way.</small></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/portbuild/index.html">
FreeBSD Package Building Procedures</a><br/>
<small>Describes the technical operation of the build cluster.</small>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html">
FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Packages</a><br/>
<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
engineering team to produce a high quality package set
suitable for official FreeBSD release media, with specific
emphasis on how to split up the packages for the release
media, and how to verify that a package set is
consistent.</small></p>
</li>
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<li>
<p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/index.html">
FreeBSD Committer's Guide</a><br/>
<small>Includes a discussion of policies and issues that are of <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html">
particular interest to committers to the ports tree</a>.</small></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/index.html">
Problem Report Handling Guidelines</a><br/>
<small>While primarily aimed at FreeBSD committers, this should
also be read by users interested in how best to attract attention
to their PRs.</small></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Resources Of General Interest</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.FreshPorts.org">FreshPorts</a><br/>
<small>A site maintained by Dan Langille that lets you browse
the state of the entire Ports Collection or any individual port
within it. Includes cross-references, links, charts and graphs,
and many other things. Of interest to users and developers
alike.</small></p>
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