From ec546b1d78fabeba7d154da7f6aea2bb1aa3b33e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Théo Zimmermann Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:00:11 +0200 Subject: Give advice on managing GitHub notifications in CONTRIBUTING. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md') diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 1a3c99369..dd24ad38a 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -54,6 +54,20 @@ The sources for the [Coq reference manual](https://coq.inria.fr/distrib/current/ You may also contribute to the informal documentation available in [Cocorico](https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki) (the Coq wiki), and the [Coq FAQ](https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/The-Coq-FAQ). Both of these are editable by anyone with a GitHub account. +## Following the development + +If you want to follow the development activity around Coq, you are encouraged +to subscribe to the [Coqdev mailing list](https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/coqdev). +This mailing list has reasonably low traffic. + +You may also choose to use GitHub feature to +["watch" this repository](https://github.com/coq/coq/subscription), but be +advised that this means receiving a very large number of notifications. +GitHub gives [some advice](https://blog.github.com/2017-07-18-managing-large-numbers-of-github-notifications/#prioritize-the-notifications-you-receive) +on how to configure your e-mail client to filter these notifications. +A possible alternative is to deactivate e-mail notifications and manage your +GitHub web notifications using a tool such as [Octobox](http://octobox.io/). + ## Contributing outside this repository There are many useful ways to contribute to the Coq ecosystem that don't involve the Coq repository. -- cgit v1.2.3