mention bot for GitHub PRs

[l2dy (Zero King)]

It's hard to manually mention the maintainer on GitHub as one have to find the right GitHub handle on Trac first.

A bot mentioning (@) the maintainer in a comment for every PR would be great.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

That depends on getting the GitHub names of maintainers into Portfiles first, for which syntax was added in 2.3.5, but it still had some bugs breaking the 'port info' output. Should be safe to use after 2.4.0.

I would prefer to avoid the noise of mentions by ​requesting them as reviewers, which is a feature GitHub added lately.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

We need a couple of things anyway:

• probably start with the database of users in Trac
• create a mass update that will change maintainers in all ports at the same time (else this will literally take forever to do manually)
• figure out how to implement a bot that does something with PRs

Whether to do what l2dy or raimue suggest is not too important. We could even do both as:

• I can imagine that quite a number of maintainers don't have a GitHub account yet (these might be stale developers anyway, but ...)
• I would often want to ask specific developers for review even if they are not maintainers of the port in question

so the mapping between maintainers and reviewers would not always be 1:1.

Even if we assign reviewers (which makes sense) I wouldn't mind having a small table listing maintainers with both macports handle & github mention.

[l2dy (Zero King)]

I do prefer review requests now. I first asked about this in October last year and review requests were introduced in December.

​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2016-October/034408.html

​https://github.com/blog/2291-introducing-review-requests

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

I guess this should be considered fixed with the ​PR bot.