The FreeBSD Ports Collection is a product intended first and + foremost for the end-users of FreeBSD. The Ports Management Team + (portmgr) is the group charged with overseeing its development. + Its members are appointed by the FreeBSD Core Team (core).
+ +The primary responsibility of the portmgr team is to ensure + that the FreeBSD Ports Developer community provides a ports + collection that is functional, stable, up-to-date and + full-featured. Its secondary responsibility is to coordinate + among the committers and developers who work on it.
+ +The Ports Management Team has the following specific + responsibilities:
+ +Assure the integrity of the Ports Collection by managing + commits to the ports portion of the FreeBSD CVS repository. + This includes maintaining certain key files directly; + running test builds of proposed large changes; and acting as + arbiter over other commits.
+Maintain the automated + package building cluster, and make the resulting packages + available for download by FreeBSD users.
+Work with the FreeBSD Security team to insure that security + problems are indentified and handled in a timely fashion.
+Work with FreeBSD Ports and Documentation Committers to + keep the relevant documentation up to date.
+ +To the extent possible with a volunteer project, ensure + that the legal rights of authors whose works are installed in + the Ports Collection are respected.
+Act as arbiter of first resort for disputes between + FreeBSD community members such as maintainers and + committers.
+Manage CVS commit access to the ports tree. All new + committer approvals must be sent to admins@, and CC'd to + core@; they must be PGP-signed.
+Establish guidelines and policies governing the rights and + responsibilities of Ports Committers and maintainers.
+Help prioritize future directions for the overall Ports + Collection.
+In addition to its specific responsibilities, The Ports Management + Team may take whatever actions it believes prudent to manage the ports + collection responsibly.
+ +Please see Ports Team Policies for + a complete list of the current policies which have been adopted to + help implement these goals.
+ +This charter is under the control of the FreeBSD Core Team. It + is valid until such time as it is modified or revoked by the Core + Team; any changes to this charter must be approved by the Core Team.
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