How to stop notifications about other's comments?

[AhmadIsmael-TomTom]

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Hi,
Imagine this scenario. Someone opens a PR and requests 5 other people and me to review it. Each of us writes a single comment, and the author replies to each one. I will get in my email a notification for each of the 5 initial comments and the next 5 replies. I am only interested in conversations that I am part of and should reply and react to, and not every comment on the PR. How can I do that?

The same thing happens with mentions. If I were mentioned in a single conversation in a PR, I would receive an email notification for every comment on that PR with mention@noreply.github.com as a CC. It seems that your notification system works on the PR level, and not the conversation level.

Is there a way to change that?

Thanks

[xmo-odoo]

AFAIK there's no way to change that, the configuration for PR notifications is incredibly lacking in flexibility.

The recommendation I have is to disable being notified by mail unless that's absolutely central to your github workflow, get your notifications in the web UI, and liberally unsubscribe (or mark as read) straight from the notifications table. It's still not great, but it's a lot better than the hell that is getting gh notifications by mail.

[Anmol-Baranwal]

Yes, there are a few ways you can customize your notifications in GitHub to receive only the relevant ones:

1. Customizing notifications for specific repositories - You can choose to receive notifications only for specific repositories you're interested in. Go to the repository you want to customize notifications for, click on the "Watch" or "Unwatch" button, and then choose the type of notifications you want to receive.

2. Customizing notifications for specific threads - If you're only interested in certain conversations within a PR, you can customize your notifications for specific threads. In the notification email, click on the "View thread" button to go to the thread, and then click on the "Unsubscribe" button at the bottom of the thread to stop receiving notifications for it.

3. Using filters in your email client - If you're receiving too many notifications, you can create filters in your email client to automatically delete or archive notifications that don't meet certain criteria (e.g., notifications that don't mention you).

Regarding your concern with mentions, unfortunately, there is no way to customize notifications at the conversation level, but you can still use the above options to customize notifications for specific repositories or threads.

I would suggest you to give feedback on the same to GitHub using appropriate tag.

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