Committer's Guide

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

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This document provides information for the FreeBSD committer community. All new committers should read this document before they start, and existing committers are strongly encouraged to review it from time to time.

Almost all FreeBSD developers have commit rights to one or more repositories. However, a few developers do not, and some of the information here applies to them as well. (For instance, some people only have rights to work with the Problem Report database). Please see Section 14 for more information.

This document may also be of interest to members of the FreeBSD community who want to learn more about how the project works.

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Table of Contents
1 Administrative Details
2 Commit Bit Types
3 Subversion Primer
4 Conventions and Traditions
5 Preferred License for New Files
6 Developer Relations
7 GNATS
8 Who's Who
9 SSH Quick-Start Guide
10 Coverity Prevent® Availability for FreeBSD Committers
11 The FreeBSD Committers' Big List of Rules
12 Support for Multiple Architectures
13 Ports Specific FAQ
14 Issues Specific To Developers Who Are Not Committers
15 Perks of the Job
16 Miscellaneous Questions

1 Administrative Details

Login Methods	ssh(1), protocol 2 only
Main Shell Host	`freefall.FreeBSD.org`
`src/` Subversion Root	`svn+ssh://svn.FreeBSD.org/base` (see also Section 3).
`doc/` Subversion Root	`svn+ssh://svn.FreeBSD.org/doc` (see also Section 3).
`ports/` Subversion Root	`svn+ssh://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports` (see also Section 3).
Internal Mailing Lists	developers (technically called all-developers), doc-developers, doc-committers, ports-developers, ports-committers, src-developers, src-committers. (Each project repository has its own -developers and -committers mailing lists. Archives for these lists may be found in files `/home/mail/repository-name-developers-archive` and `/home/mail/repository-name-committers-archive` on the `FreeBSD.org` cluster.)
Core Team monthly reports	`/home/core/public/monthly-reports` on the `FreeBSD.org` cluster.
Ports Management Team monthly reports	`/home/portmgr/public/monthly-reports` on the `FreeBSD.org` cluster.
Noteworthy `src/` SVN Branches	`stable/7` (7.X-STABLE), `stable/8` (8.X-STABLE), `stable/9` (9.X-STABLE), `head` (-CURRENT)

It is required that you use ssh(1) to connect to the project hosts. If you do not know anything about ssh(1), please see Section 9.

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