See this downstream ticket I opened on the MacPorts Trac: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/68357
Basically, when a project has a presence on both Trac and GitHub, sometimes people will miss things on one place because they only check their notifications on one of the two places. Syncing notifications would help keep people up-to-date about things they may have missed on the other end of the bridge.
(N.B. I'm not sure if this is actually possible; if it isn't, feel free to close)