= problem =

git allows to send patches via send-email and bzr using send, but there is no place to send the patches to for hosted projects. Instead one needs to manually create a ticket and copy all information from the patch to the ticket to create a useful ticket.

= analysis =

Releng used to use a email2trac plugin, but I believe it was not used anymore because of spam problems. But for this use case, the mails need to be in a certain format and it is very unlikely that spam is sent matching this format.

= enhancement recommendation =

The plugin would need to work as follows:
- see if the sender can be matched to a known FAS account, store that FAS name
- parse incoming e-mails and check whether they are valid patches e.g. for git or bzr
- The Subject is used as a new short summary and the commit message is used as the initial comment
- the mail itself is stored as an attachement for to the ticket
- the ticket is created using the looked up FAS account name

I do not know how much coding this would involve, but I would certainly like to have this feature. If it looks like it could be accepted, I will spend some time looking into it eventually.