Trac will continue to be used for the forseeable future because GHI is about the lamest system imaginable.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, A. Karl Kornel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, Happy Holidays! > > I have a question about how best to deal with submitting a port update to > an existing maintainer, in the new Git setup. > > The port in question is "libvirt", which has Ryan as maintainer, but also > has openmaintainer listed. I would like to know the best way of submitting > an updated Portfile, while also notifying the maintainer. > > I thought of four different options. I say "the maintainer" instead of > "Ryan" because I'm trying to think of an option would work for as many > cases as possible. > > 1. I could email the maintainer directly, but that seems too "closed" to > me. > 2. I could put in a Trac ticket, but is that the best way for the future? > 3. I could open the Pull request on Github, but I don't know if I have > access to notify the maintainer directly. It's probably possible, but > would that work for every other maintainer? > 4. I could open a Pull request on Github, and then email the maintainer > separately, but the maintainer might get mad that I didn't use Trac. > > I was thinking of going with #2 or #4. > > All advice is welcome! > > ~ Karl > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
