All, gentoo policy states that if you want to make a change to a package, but you find that it is maintained by someone else, you are supposed to contact them and give them a reasonable chance to reply before you change the packages they maintain unless you have a different arrangement with them or you are one of the herd maintainers for the package.
The exceptions to this that I know about would be things like a developer being on devaway or some sort of tree-wide change that affects the package in question. But, tree-wide changes are usually announced here anyway, so those are different. I am concerned because lately I have seen several packages I maintain being touched without this attempt to contact me. It isn't that I mind the help, I just like to know when something is about to be changed with packages I work on and why. Could everyone please bear this in mind when dealing with packages you do not maintain? Thanks much, William
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