portmgr: behind the scenes by René Ladan
Channel: EuroBSDcon
Date: 2021-09-27

This talk is about the ports management team of FreeBSD, also known as portmgr. It will cover various aspects of daily operation, both interpersonal and technical, like:
 - personnel handling
 - deciding on policies
 - building packages
 - who is who
 - history of portmgr
 - how things have changed over time (remember GNOME updates?)
 - its interaction with other teams
 - maybe more.

René Ladan
René started to work on FreeBSD in 2004. Meanwhile, he has been awarded both a documentation and a ports commit bit and is now part of the Ports Management Team (aka portmgr@). After visiting too many instances of EuroBSDCon, he was drawn into the accompanying Foundation and now assumes the role of secretary.