FreeBSD enthusiast and ports committer

• Name: Ben Woods
• Nationality: Australian
• Location: Perth, Australia
• Email: woodsb02@freebsd.org
• IRC: woodsb02 freenode
• Twitter: @woodsb02
• Portscout
• Portsmon
• Canary:
  • I have NEVER committed a code change to any open source project (including FreeBSD) as a result of being contacted or forced by a government organisation;
  • I have NEVER received any warrants from any government organisation;
  • I have NEVER received any gag orders;
  • I have NEVER received any National Security letters.

I enjoy creating and maintaining FreeBSD ports, and believe that it adds significant value to the FreeBSD project. After all, an operating system without add-on software can only get you so far!

• Ports I Maintain

• Add feature to Poudriere for simultaneous (bulk) testport for all combinations of port options
• Add feature to Poudriere for the Web interface to include lists for "Queued" and "Remaining"
• Teach geli(8) how to attach multiple volumes at once, so that it can reuse a passphrase when attaching multiple encrypted disks used in a raidz. r335673
• Port Plex Media Player to FreeBSD ports. Requires QT5.6 support first.
• Add driver for ElanTech touchpads to FreeBSD psm(4) driver (to support scrolling, etc). PR205690. Support added to FreeBSD 12-CURRENT in r306355

• r356758 - bsdinstall: Change “default” (first) Partitioning method to ZFS
• r340318 - newsyslog.conf: Restrict included files in default config to [!.]*.conf