I am using GitLab CE 7.9.0 and am confused about its email notification capabilities. I am hoping someone here can explain to me which parts of the incomprehensible behavior are intentional and which are due to misconfiguration on my part or bugs in GitLab.
Under Profile Settings > Notifications I have selected "Watch" (and all groups and projects set to "global"), which is labeled "You will receive *all* notifications from projects in which you participate". However, my experience is a different one. I receive *very few* email notifications from projects in which I participate (I do receive *some*, e.g. "Access to group was granted" and "Project was moved", so the basic email setup seems to be working). In particular, I do not get notifications for pushes, which are the ones I would most importantly expect, and other events that are listed in my dashboard Atom feed, such as people joining projects, deleted branches, comments on commits. Then there seems to be a completely separate system under Project > Settings > Services > Emails on push where I can enter my email address. When I do that, I indeed receive push notifications on that address, but I don't understand why I should have to enter my email address again here. GitLab already knows my email address, and it knows that I am interested in this project (from my "Watch" setting). Is it correct and intentional that push notifications are not part of what the notification settings page calls "all notifications"? Or am I doing something wrong? What is the purpose of the "Emails on push" service? From its user interface (input field for arbitrary email addresses, configuration per project) I get the impression that it is not intended for notifications to project contributors (what I am missing) but e.g. to a public mailing list. Is that correct? If so, what is the intended way for project contributors to get email notifications of pushes? Is there one? -Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/8EE3ECEF-8514-4C71-939B-6076BD7E3A6F%40indel.ch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
