FreeBSD Internal Pages
This page contains pointers to pages documenting aspects of the FreeBSD project itself, as viewed separately from the codebase.
Projects
There are various projects which lie outside the mainstream development path, in which a number of groups are working on the 'cutting edge' to expand FreeBSD's range of capabilities in new directions.
Here is an overview of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Process.
Here are the official package building procedures.
And here you will find the schedules for upcoming official releases of FreeBSD.
Policies
To avoid chaos with a project this large spread out all over the globe, there have to be some Policies for FreeBSD Committers.
People
The FreeBSD Project Staff consists of teams, groups and individuals with designated project roles and areas of responsibility and the developers. By following the links, one will find a list of them, as well as explanations of who is responsible for what.
Here are some personal homepages hosted at FreeBSD.org, as well as some photos from social events.
You can read here core's Hat Term Limits Policy and some guidelines from Warner Losh on how to work with hats.
Resources
Here is a list of some technical resources for FreeBSD committers.
For those with accounts on the main FreeBSD.org network, here are the machine resources that are available and the sorts of work they are intended for.
You can learn more about the FreeBSD WWW server, including the machine, the software, mirroring the FreeBSD web pages.