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

[Brandon Allbery]

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 <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
>



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