Policy on minor port changes?

What's the policy on making minor, harmless portfile changes to ports you don't maintain? For example, ticket #11201 says a dependency is missing to p5-locale- gettext (namely, perl5.8). This port is maintained by yeled@macports.org. It would be a trivial fix to commit, but to be safe I simply reassigned the ticket to yeled@macports.org. However, there's no guarantee he'll actually see it. So in a case like this, should I just go ahead and commit a fix? Or is it better to wait for the maintainer to do so, even for minor fixes like this? -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com