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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,26 @@ The following specific topics are important:
* [Standardization](./standardization.md)
* [C#](csharp.md)

## Notifications

GitHub only notifies you about repositories you explicitly **watch**, and new repositories appear in the
organization regularly, so your subscriptions drift out of date on their own. Reconcile them in one command:

```bash
git clone git@github.com:Cratis/Automation.git
cd Automation/Source/GitHub
./gh-subscribe.sh
```

It watches every repository in the organization, mutes archived repositories and forks, and follows organization
members. It is idempotent, so run it again whenever new repositories show up. You do not have to be an organization
member — non-members get the public repositories and public member list.

Turning on **email** delivery is a separate manual step. GitHub exposes no API for delivery preferences, so watching
everything still only fills the web inbox until you tick the Email boxes under
[notification settings](https://github.com/settings/notifications). The full recipe, including that step, is in the
[notifications guide in the Automation repository](https://github.com/Cratis/Automation/blob/main/Documentation/GitHub/notifications.md).

## Size

Contributions, be it features or bug fixes should be small and digestible.
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