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 ### Processes
 
+- workflow for patching/maintaining leaves some details out such as what automated steps take place, and what manual steps are present
+- how to accept a patch, or as a non-committer maintainer, to indicate it's ready for the next stage? refer to maintainer flags, keywords, patch attributes
+- who can mark a patch attachment as obsolete?
+- what is the BZ keywords field for?
+
 ### Contributing
 
+- please recommend some reasonably complex ports that are considered best practice; we all copy-pasta but it helps to have good sauce to refer to.
+- a default / simple poudriere set up makes a huge difference to this
+
 ## Port Maintenance
 
+Need a one-stop checklist for what to do before submitting a port
+- portlint
+- poudriere output
+- confirming `sudo make deinstall clean fetch makesum stage stage-qa check-orphans check-plist package install` works fine
+- what variants of FreeBSD should be checked (9,10,current ?) amd64? poudriere does make this easy
+
 ## Issue Tracking
 
 ### Workflow