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Official Hats

by Zafar Mahmood on March 16, 2012

Official Hats

The official hats in the FreeBSD Project are hats that are more or less formalised and mainly administrative roles. They have the authority and responsibility for their area. The following illustration shows the responsibility lines. After this follows a description of each hat, including who it is held by.

Figure 5-1. Overview of official hats



All boxes consist of groups of committers, except for the dotted boxes where the holders are not necessarily committers. The flattened circles are sub-projects and consist of both committers and non-committers of the main project.
5.2.1. Documentation project manager

The FreeBSD Documentation Project architect is responsible for defining and following up documentation goals for the committers in the Documentation project.

Hat held by: The DocEng team <doceng@FreeBSD.org>. The DocEng Charter.
5.2.2. CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator

The CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator coordinates all the CVSup Mirror Site Admins to ensure that they are distributing current versions of the software, that they have the capacity to update themselves when major updates are in progress, and making it easy for the general public to find their closest CVSup mirror.

Hat currently held by: The CVSup-master team <cvsup-master@FreeBSD.org>.
5.2.3. Internationalisation

The Internationalisation hat is responsible for coordinating the localisation efforts of the FreeBSD kernel and userland utilities. The translation effort are coordinated by The FreeBSD Documentation Project. The Internationalisation hat should suggest and promote standards and guidelines for writing and maintaining the software in a fashion that makes it easier to translate.

Hat currently available.
5.2.4. Postmaster

The Postmaster is responsible for mail being correctly delivered to the committers' email address. He is also responsible for ensuring that the mailing lists work and should take measures against possible disruptions of mail such as having troll-, spam- and virus-filters.

Hat currently held by: the Postmaster Team <postmaster@FreeBSD.org>.
5.2.5. Quality Assurance

The responsibilities of this role are to manage the quality assurance measures.

Hat currently held by: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>.
5.2.6. Release Coordination

The responsibilities of the Release Engineering Team are

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      Setting, publishing and following a release schedule for official releases
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      Documenting

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