Ask HN: How do you track new issues in your GitHub repos?
I have a problem that started back when Github redesigned their notification system...and it has been getting worse. Back then you would get notified (be email) of any new issues opened in your own repos, those you were mentioned/participated in, or manually subscribed to -- everything was great. Fast forward to today, this behavior cannot be replicated.
You currently have two options:
- Enable email notifications for ALL watched things (basically your entire feed)
- Disable them entirely
In the first case, stuff that specifically pertains to you gets completely lost in the sea of notifications. In the second, you're left to manually monitor new pull requests and issues in your own repos. In both cases, new issues/pulls go unnoticed for days or weeks.
The recent change on Oct 6 made things harder still. The reworked Issues panel defaults to `is:open is:issue author:<you> `(issues you opened yourself) rather than issues in your repos or opened by you: `is:open is:issue user:<you>`. There is no way to change this default filter, so now i have to bookmark the pre-filtered issue page to manually monitor new issues in my own repos. I have brought this up a couple times to Github staff and they apologize but do nothing about it.
Does everyone simply enable email notifs for their entire feed and use gmail filters to delete the 95% that don't start with <you>/<repo>?
thanks!