Re: [edk2-announce] Research Request

["Brian J. Johnson" <brian.johnson@hpe.com>]

On 11/27/18 6:53 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 11/26/18 22:43, Jeremiah Cox via edk2-devel wrote:
>> Feedback on GitHub as follows…
>>
>>
>>> 1. No Lock-In - What automated data export is available?
>>> We want to be able to leave and take all our data with us. "Data" here
>>> includes: review comments, pull requests / patches (including metadata),
>>> old (rejected) pull requests and metadata, issue tracker entries and
>>> comments (if issue tracker included). This archiving should be
>>> automated, not something we do by hand.
>> Untested, but might these all be easily satisfied by subscribing a mailing list to GitHub notifications?
>> https://help.github.com/articles/about-notifications/#watching-notifications  
>> https://help.github.com/articles/about-email-notifications/  
> No, they are insufficient.
> 
> Following the last link above ("about-email-notifications"), one finds
> several other links; and one of those is:
> 
> https://help.github.com/articles/about-notifications/
> 
> This article says,
> 
>      GitHub sends participating notifications when you're directly
>      involved in activities or conversations within a repository or a
>      team you're a member of. You'll receive a notification when:
> 
>      [...]
> 
>      - You open, comment on, or close an issue or pull request.
> 
>      [...]
> 
> This is demonstrably false. I'm a member of the TianoCore organization,
> I have commented on, and closed (rejected):
> 
>    https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/133
> 
> and I *never*  received an email notification about my *own*  comment /
> action. I only received the initial email, about the pull request being
> opened (attached for reference).

Try going to the "Settings" item under the menu in the top-right corner, 
and clicking on the "Notifications" tab on the left.  Under "Email 
notification preferences" there should be a checkbox for "Include your 
own updates".  That may do what you need.

-- 
Brian J. Johnson
Enterprise X86 Lab

Hewlett Packard Enterprise