FreeBSD Organization
A number of committees with special responsibilities
have been created within the FreeBSD Project to ensure that
the project continues to move in a positive
direction.
The FreeBSD Core Team is a group
of 9 developers elected by the committers for 2 year
terms.
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team
is responsible for ensuring that the FreeBSD Ports Collection
is stable, up-to-date and full-deatured. Its secondary responsibility
is to coordinate among the committers and developers working on
it.
The FreeBSD Documentation Engineering Team
is responsible for defining and following up documentation goals for
the committers in the Documentation Project.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering
Team is a small group of developers responsible for
managing the release process.
The FreeBSD Security Team is responsible
for keeping the community aware of bugs, exploits and security risks
affecting the FreeBSD src and ports trees, and to promote and
distribute information needed to safely run FreeBSD systems.
Furthermore, it is responsible for resolving software bugs affecting
the security of FreeBSD and issuing security advisories.