Best practice for port contributors in github world

[Joshua Root]

On 2016-12-13 23:56 , Luc Bourhis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was considering to only fork macports-ports so that I can use pull requests for ports, without having to build macports core from source. But then what is the best way to configure macports on my system? Shall I replace the line
>
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar [default]
>
> in sources.conf with
>
> file://path/to/my/clone/of/macports-ports [default]
>
> or is there a better alternative?

That would work fine, yes.

Another option is to have a repo with just the ports you're working on 
and set it up as per 
<https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html>.

- Josh