On Apr 25, 2018, at 13:02, Chris Jones wrote:

> On 25 Apr 2018, at 5:46 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 11:31, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> 
>>> Personally, I would like to see MacPorts go in exactly the opposite 
>>> direction, so migrate away from using trac for anything much. I also happen 
>>> to think, one way or another this will naturally happen as people get used 
>>> to, and see all the advantages, of doing everything within github...
>> 
>> When we switched to GitHub, we spent a lot of time considering whether to 
>> move our Trac tickets to GitHub Issues. Smaller macOS forge projects were 
>> happy with that change, but after careful consideration, we came to the 
>> conclusion that GitHub Issues did not have as many features as Trac and 
>> would make it more difficult for us to accomplish our work. I'm not aware of 
>> GitHub Issues having gained new features since then, such that I don't think 
>> our decision would be different today.
> 
> Thats fine, but not what i am talking about. If someone starts an update, in 
> a branch in github but reaches a point where it is not quite done, but wishes 
> to discuss it with reviewers, it makes infinite more sense to submit that as 
> a WIP MR instead of converting it to a patch and submitting that to trac. 
> That, frankly, would be absurb.

Ok. I was just trying to explain why we didn't want to "migrate away from using 
trac for anything much" as you suggested.

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