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       <qandadiv xml:id="ports-qa-misc-questions">
 	<title>Miscellaneous Questions</title>
 
+	<qandaentry xml:id="ports-qa-misc-blanket-approval">
+	  <question>
+	    <para>Are there changes that can be committed without
+	      asking the maintainer for approval?</para>
+	  </question>
+
+	  <answer>
+	    <para>Blanket approval for most ports applies to these
+	      types of fixes:</para>
+
+	    <itemizedlist>
+	      <listitem>
+		<para>Most infrastructure changes to a port (that is,
+		  modernizing, but not changing the functionality).
+		  For example, the blanket covers converting to new
+		  <varname>USES</varname> macros, enabling verbose
+		  builds, and switching to new ports system
+		  syntaxes.</para>
+	      </listitem>
+
+	      <listitem>
+		<para>Trivial and <emphasis>tested</emphasis> build
+		  and runtime fixes.</para>
+	      </listitem>
+	    </itemizedlist>
+
+	    <important>
+	      <para>Exceptions to this are anything maintained by the
+		&a.portmgr;, or the &a.security-officer;.  No
+		unauthorized commits may ever be made to ports
+		maintained by those groups.</para>
+	    </important>
+
+	    <warning>
+	      <para>Blanket approval does not apply to ports that are
+		maintained by teams like <email
+		  role="nolink">autotools@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
+		  role="nolink">x11@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
+		  role="nolink">gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>, or <email
+		  role="nolink">kde@FreeBSD.org</email>.  These teams
+		use external repositories and can have work that would
+		conflict with changes that would normally fall under
+		blanket approval.</para>
+	    </warning>
+	  </answer>
+	</qandaentry>
+
 	<qandaentry xml:id="ports-qa-misc-correctly-building">
 	  <question>
 	    <para>How do I know if my port is building correctly or