Question regarding new ports.

Is there a team of developers that concentrate on adding new ports to the tree or is it on a oh that's cool / useful I will port that to FreeBSD? Because there is a text editor I use on windows that I think would be a excellent addition to the tree and that is Notepad++ I know a lot of us use VI or EMACs but I think that this is a excellent GUI alternative to either.
 
From the Notepad++ page:

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.

That means it's probably going to cost some non-trivial effort to make it run on non-Windows plattforms. The Scintilla component is ported to FreeBSD already, but someone would have to port the rest.
 
Aww bugger, I really really like that editor on windows and I hoped it would be simple to get it running on FreeBSD.
 
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