Anne van Kesteren

Using GitHub

I’ve been asked a few times how I stay on top of GitHub:

• I only watch repositories I can reasonably keep up with in aggregate.
• I aggresively unsubscribe from threads.
• I trust others to mention me if needed.
• I disabled email and exclusively use /notifications. This collapses long threads to a single item.

This works well for me, it may work for you.

What I miss is Bugzilla’s needinfo. I could see this as a persistent notification that cannot be dismissed until you go into the thread and perform the action asked of you. What I also miss on /notifications is the ability to see if someone mentioned me in a thread. I often want to unsubscribe based on the title, but I don’t always do it out of fear of neglecting someone.