On 1 November 2016 at 19:57, Clemens Lang wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 07:42:23PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> At some point (rather sooner than later) we'll have to start adding >> GitHub usernames to Portfiles (we might have to extend the base to >> properly support that). > > I agree, especially because the GitHub username is now also valid in > Trac. At the moment, you'd get new tickets sent to your email address, > not your Trac account (unless a user notices the equivalence in the > auto-completion box). > >> And quite honestly I would also be in favour of asking committers to >> use the same MacPorts handle as their GitHub account name (and only >> keep the old ones as aliases). > > I like my handle, but I can see how it could lead to confusion. On the > other hand, the maintainer handles are bound to become less important in > the future anyway. If you want to reach a committer, there usually are > contact methods on their GitHub profile.
You made your email public. Many accounts have no contact information available, so the only way to contact them is to: - open a random bogus ticket and mention their name as @username (but that most likely means sending a "public message") - figure out which repositories they have contributed to, clone the repository and find the email there None of that is really straightforward. And trying to matching a known email to the username is actually worse. When creating pull requests on GitHub (but also for tickets on Trac) we'll need that for both committers and non-committers. Trac has at least the nice auto-completion functionality that GitHub doesn't. It would be nice if "port info" would also print the github usernames of maintainers. Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev