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In short: Getting listed on FreeBSD Ports Collection is free. Plan for about 45 minutes — there is material to prepare and a review to wait on.
What they ask for: Create and thoroughly test a FreeBSD port for your stable CLI or desktop utility, include its canonical project website in WWW metadata and submit the patch through FreeBSD Bugzilla.
Create and thoroughly test a FreeBSD port for your stable CLI or desktop utility, include its canonical project website in WWW metadata and submit the patch through FreeBSD Bugzilla.
Anyone may submit, but the software must have a stable source release, acceptable licence, correct checksums/plist and clean builds; a volunteer maintainer is mandatory and review can take months.
Open the submission page on freebsd.org and complete its form — that is the "Open submit page" link at the top of this page.
Anyone may submit, but the software must have a stable source release, acceptable licence, correct checksums/plist and clean builds; a volunteer maintainer is mandatory and review can take months.
Priority sets the band — this one is later. Cost (free) and effort (moderate) move it within that band, which puts it in the long tail tier. The score orders a submission queue. It is not a measure of the site’s domain authority, traffic or quality.