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