Many parts of FreeBSD are not <quote>owned</quote> in the sense that any specific individual will jump up and yell if you commit a change to <quote>their</quote> area, but it still pays to check first. One convention we use is to put a maintainer line in the <filename>Makefile</filename> for any package or subtree which is being actively maintained by one or more people; see <link xlink:href="@@URL_RELPREFIX@@/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies.html">https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies.html</link> for documentation on this. Where sections of code have several maintainers, commits to affected areas by one maintainer need to be reviewed by at least one other maintainer. In cases where the <quote>maintainer-ship</quote> of something is not clear, look at the repository logs for the files in question and see if someone has been working recently or predominantly in that area.