How best to submit new port to maintainer, in a world of Github?

[G Alexander]

i’d vote for #4

Pull request on github,so others can grab the changes for their own repos.


> On Nov 26, 2016, at 15:25, A. Karl Kornel <karl at kornel.us> 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