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

[Joshua Root]

On 2016-11-27 10:25 , A. Karl Kornel 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!

A trac ticket is fine. A pull request is also fine if the maintainer has 
a github account; you can @ mention them in a PR and they will be 
notified of it.

We've done some work recently to enable display of GH usernames as well 
as email addresses for port maintainers.

- Josh