Hi Roland,
Sorry for the flood. I think there is a legitimate need to be able to follow what changes in a repository.
From what I understand from GitHub, some notification use cases can be covered with subscriptions, but there isn't much fine-grained control. It seems possible to use Actions workflows to provide something similar with more control.
User behavior could also be constrained to some extent, but not too strictly, so we can keep supporting evolving tools, AI-assisted development, and novice contributors. For now, we have the Xymon wiki repository, which explains how to set up Git and related tools, and a CONTRIBUTING.md in each repository:
Bruno
Le 18.09.2026 à 16:22, Roland Rosenfeld a écrit :
Hi Bruno!
On Fri, 18 Sep 2026, Bruno Manzoni via Xymon wrote:
Being a collaborator notifies you of nothing: on GitHub, rights and notifications are unrelated. What subscribes you is the Watch button, and on xymon-monitoring/xymon nobody was using it, myself included. So when Scot opened #521, #522 and #523 last week, GitHub announced them to no one. Three clicks fix that, at the top right of
https://github.com/xymon-monitoring/xymonWatch -> Custom -> Pull requests. No membership needed, the repository is public. And if you want to join the organisation, just let us know. I had this enabled at the beginning but disabled it, when your AI started acting every minute, since my mailbox was flooded.
I didn't find an option to only watch for newly created issues or PRs (in contrast to watching every communication/update/push). So now I have to manually look for new PRs/issues and subscribe those, that I want to follow.
Do you know a better (custom) watch setup? If I subscribe on "issues" or "pull requests", I get a mail for every update in all issues/PRs and this are that many if the AI is actively working, that I delete the mails unread, which isn't better than not subscribing... Maybe I should try to subscribe issues again...
Greetings Roland