Watch a repository

Watch a repository in GitHub — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Watch the repository infra-team/ansible-roles so I get notifications on issues and PRs during the…
Watch the repository infra-team/ansible-roles so I get notifications on issues and PRs during the rollout next Tuesday. Use my account marco.ops and set notifications to watch for all activity. Confirm the change and the notification level.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I set watch on infra-team/ansible-roles, make the watch useful: suggest a notification level…
Before I set watch on infra-team/ansible-roles, make the watch useful: suggest a notification level (all activity, releases only, or participating) based on my role as release lead, show recent notification volume so I can avoid alert fatigue, and warn if multiple team members already watch it. Recommend the setting that balances awareness and noise for the rollout next Tuesday.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I flipped watch on infra-team/ansible-roles to follow a deploy and immediately started getting…

I toggled watch and notifications exploded

I flipped watch on infra-team/ansible-roles to follow a deploy and immediately started getting dozens of notifications. I’m unsure whether I chose the wrong notification level or if the project has unusually high churn. What’s the fastest way to reduce noise now, retain visibility on critical PRs, and set a sustainable notification level for the team during the rollout?

Become — change the pattern

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Every incident the whole ops crew watches several repos and then suffers notification fatigue for…

we react to outages with everyone watching repos indiscriminately

Every incident the whole ops crew watches several repos and then suffers notification fatigue for weeks. How should we change our incident monitoring and watching practices so only the right people get alerts and we stop losing focus after every outage?

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