Separate Notifications for Teams and Direct Mentions

[gkotas]

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My company recently made use of teams in Github. We use these for code owners for different subdirectories. The issue I am having is now my general team (Team A) is added to every PR in that directory . I only care about PRs for my smaller subteam (Team A1) but I am not getting notifications for all PRs (TeamA2 and TeamA3).

CompanyRepo/
├── teamA/
│   ├── subteamA1/
│   ├── subteamA2/
│   └── subteamA3/
├── teamB/
│   ├── subteamB1/
│   └── subteamB2/
└── teamC/
    ├── subteamC1/
    └── subteamC2/

My request is can I disable email notifications for PRs I get included on via the team while keeping notifications for PRs I am explicitly mentioned on?

I know I can differentiate between these two when I search for issues using review-requested:@me and user-review-requested:@me. This first showing all PRs with my team and the second only showing PRs with me explicitly added to it.

[Amitabh-Phule]

Hi,

As far as I know, GitHub currently does not provide a separate notification setting that allows you to disable notifications from team review requests while still receiving notifications only when you are individually requested or directly mentioned.

A few possible workarounds are:

1. Use notification filters and saved searches to focus on PRs where you are explicitly requested as a reviewer.

Examples:

user-review-requested:@me

or

mentions:@me

2. Adjust your email notification preferences and rely more on the GitHub Notifications inbox, where you can filter and manage notifications more effectively.

3. Consider restructuring CODEOWNERS entries so that only the relevant subteam is requested for review instead of the broader parent team, if that fits your organization's workflow.

4. Use custom email rules/filters in your email client to separate team-review notifications from direct mentions.

If this functionality is not currently available, it sounds like a reasonable feature request since GitHub already distinguishes between team review requests and individual review requests in search qualifiers.

Hopefully someone from GitHub can confirm whether there is a newer notification setting that supports this use case.