diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index 94625f9933..f6ce917c02 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -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