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.