I am getting every notification message from GitHub - NixOS/nixpkgs: Nix Packages collection & NixOS. I am on holiday and don’t have my 2FA device with me. Can someone with admin privileges please stop the spam. It is actually starting to ruin my holiday.
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This is caused by being added to a team on GitHub, which makes GitHub automatically subscribe you to the relevant repositories. You should have received an e-mail with subject [GitHub] Subscribed to NixOS/nixpkgs notifications, which contains an unsubscribe link. I would expect that to work even without being logged in into GitHub.
@idontgetoutmuch I removed you from the org, hope that it fixes your problem! PM me once you’re back and I will re-add you.
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I just noticed the same thing. Something definitely went wrong somewhere. I thought I had just fat-fingered something on github, but 2 people at more or less the same time cannot be a coincidence.
I don’t think any of the org admins can touch your GH settings, so your best bet is mail filtering rule if you can’t get to the GH interface.
@peterhoeg I just did that and @zimbatm has temporarily removed me from the group. Thanks - I will now go back to being on holiday 
@peterhoeg I’m sorry, I changed the nixpkgs-committers permissions and it reset GH custom notifications.
I’m getting spammed as well.
I used to get notifications for my PRs and PRs for packages I maintain. But today I’ve been getting a ton of emails for all sorts of PRs and merges.
@zimbatm, is it all correct with this procedure to give user commit and write permission to the nixpkgs repository?
I’m just a maintener of a few packages, but now I can even close any pull request on the repository. Should I be able to do that?
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For the notifications, this setting was magically set to “All Activity” for me. Changing it back seems to have fixed the problem
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I wrote a post-mortem here: Incident: some custom notifications for nixpkgs have been lost
Please move the conversation there so idontgetoutmuch doesn’t get spammed
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