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- Replace link to Developer's Handbook with link to Contributing Ports article
- Mention that maintainer will be asked to approve changes
- Reserve the right to fix style issues in incoming patches
- Mention that unapproved changes to port can happen as a collateral damage
  of infrastructure changes

No objection:	linimon
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@ -3035,12 +3035,17 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES= yes
name in this entry—that merely confuses
<filename>bsd.port.mk</filename>.</para>
<para>For a detailed description of the responsibilities of maintainers,
refer to the <ulink url="&url.books.developers-handbook;/policies.html#POLICIES-MAINTAINER">MAINTAINER on
Makefiles</ulink> section.</para>
<para>The maintainer is responsible for keeping the port up to
date, and ensuring the port works correctly.
For a detailed description of the responsibilities of a port
maintainer, refer to the <ulink
url="&url.articles.contributing-ports;/maintain-port.html">The
challenge for port maintainers</ulink> section.</para>
<para>If the maintainer of a port does not respond to an update
request from a user after two weeks (excluding major public
<para>Changes to the port will be sent to the maintainer of
a port for a review and an approval before being committed.
If the maintainer does not respond to an update
request after two weeks (excluding major public
holidays), then that is considered a maintainer timeout, and the
update may be made without explicit maintainer approval. If the
maintainer does not respond within three months, then that
@ -3050,6 +3055,14 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES= yes
the &a.security-officer;. No unauthorized commits may ever be
made to ports maintained by those groups.</para>
<para>We reserve the right to modify the maintainer's submission
to better match existing policies and style of the Ports
Collection without explicit blessing from the submitter.
Also, large infrastructural changes can result in
a port being modified without maintainer's consent.
This kind of changes will never affect the port's
functionality.</para>
<para>The &a.portmgr; reserves the right to revoke or override
anyone's maintainership for any reason, and the &a.security-officer;
reserves the right to revoke or override maintainership for security