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They will if they subscribed to your repo's new releases (with GitHub's "watch" function)

• eatonphil 5y ago
  The problem is that this subscribes them to everything. I used to use watch but I could care less about every individual commit on anything other than projects I'm actively working on. Watch is not a good substitute for a way to learn about important changes on an infrequent, regular basis (i.e. once a month emails).
  • matthews2 5y ago
    Try clicking the watch button now. It changed a while ago, and you can narrow it down to certain events (releases, commits, issues, PRs, etc.)
    • eatonphil 5y ago
      Gotcha that's a good improvement. But this still only works by showing a visual change in your feed at the time of the release. What if I care about software but don't spend all day on Github's logged in homepage/activity feed? Email is the only reliable way to send/receive important updates for any meaningful project.
      • iampims 5y ago
        You get an email if you subscribe to releases.
        • eatonphil 5y ago
          Huh, I see releases in the Github UI and I never get release emails. Maybe I have an email filter I forgot about.
          • maxloh 5y ago
            You need to change your notification settings in GitHub. Maybe sending you a email of new notifications is not the default option.