How do I configure GitHub to not email me when gitStream adds a comment?

[unikitty37]

The repo administrator has turned gitStream on for our repo. Now I get emails telling me who the code experts are on every PR I'm involved in.

I don't need to get these emails. Is there a way for gitStream to add its comments in a way that doesn't send emails to contributors, or for individual recipients to unsubscribe from gitStream comment emails while still receiving the relevant comments (from actual humans) on the PR?

(Unfortunately configuring email rules on our server is clunky enough that this isn't an easy way forward. Corporate email systems… 🤢)

[vim-zz]

The emails are sent by GitHub, not gitStream. gitStream just posts comments on the PR, and GitHub’s notification system decides when to email you. There isn’t a way for gitStream to stop those emails or for you to unsubscribe only from gitStream comments. To avoid them, you’d need to adjust GitHub notification settings or set up an email rule.

If it still bugs you, you can disable the explain-code-experts automation in your repo by removing it from the CM automation files or overriding it with an empty automation. When a repository defines the same automation as an organization-level rule, the repository automation takes precedence and overrides the organization automation (see https://docs.gitstream.cm/how-it-works/#configuration-priority-and-overrides).

[unikitty37]

Thanks — it looks like the default config's been dropped in and left alone after that. I'll try and find if we actually want to run this.

It's a shame GitHub doesn't allow automations to post a comment with a no_email_notification flag 🫤