As of the end of Q4 the ports tree holds a bit more than 25,000 ports, and the PR count is around 2,000. The activity on the ports tree remains steady, with about 7,000 commits performed by almost 120 active committers.

On the problem reports front, figures show an encouraging trend, with a significant increase in the number of PRs fixed during Q4. Indeed, almost 1,800 reports were fixed, which makes an increase of about 20% compared to Q3.

In Q4 8 commit bits were taken in for safekeeping, following an inactivity period of more than 18 months (lioux, lippe, simon, jhay, max, sumikawa, alexey, sperber). Three new developers were granted a ports commit bit (Kenji Takefu, Carlos Puga Medina, and Ian Lepore), and one returning committer (miwi) had his commit bit reinstated.

Also related to the management of ports commit bits, nox's grants were revoked, since the FreeBSD developers learnt that Juergen Lock passed away.

On the management side, no changes were made to the portmgr team during Q4.

On QA side 33 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive updates or cleanups. Amongst those noticeable changes are the update to gcc 4.9, cmake to 3.4.1, PostgreSQL to 9.4, ruby-gems to 2.5.0. Some infrastructure changes included the usage of a WRKSRC different from WRKDIR when NO_WRKSUBDIR is set, the removal of bsd.cpu.mk from sys.mk, and the move of QT_NONSTANDARD to bsd.qt.mk.