I don't think offloading work like that would be effective. There's no "higher ups" here to do all work. If we all did it like that, then in the end, one guy at the top of the chain would have it very rough, since all the work piled on top of him.
If you do your SVN checkout, you can open the text description files such as RTR/data/text/export_units.txt, the entries should already be in there. For coordination, you can always talk to ahowl11 about what you added, or simply link up the unit descriptions into export_descr_units.txt yourself and then SVN Commit.