Owner of MacPorts account on GitHub

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 13, 2015, at 5:40 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Our Trac has some customizations (e.g. the port field and CC button), but we
> always wanted more. The maintainer should automatically be notified when the
> port field is set, tickets should be closed when a commit messages contains a
> "closes #xxxxx" string. We even have scripts ready for some of these, but just
> could never deploy them.

Please let me know where these scripts are, ticket numbers, and if there was any technical problem deploying them or if it's just that nobody got around to it.


> From a new system, I would expect to keep the existing features or even better,
> get everything we wanted. For example on GitHub, we could not add custom fields
> and the issue tracker is very limited compared to Trac.
> 
> How customizable would JIRA be in this regard? Can it even be used with simple
> email setup by users reporting issues?

I pretty much despise jira every time I've encountered it. Its formatting syntax is even worse than trac's. I like the simplicity of github's issue tracker for most projects, but I'm not sure if it would be sufficient for MacPorts.