[2021] portmg - behind the scenes - René Ladan

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.