How to get GitHub commit notifications by email after January

Question

I'm part of several teams that depend heavily on GitHub's convenient "send an email every time anyone pushes commits" service, which is slated to disappear in a few weeks. I'm aware that it's been deprecated in favor of a more general WebHooks mechanism, but the docs are not very clear on exactly how one would instantiate the general mechanism to get back what the existing one does.

What is the easiest way to replicate the functionality that's going away?

Answer 1

Beside the original post (Replacing Services with webhooks), you have:

• GitHub Actions, still in beta, but which should make it possible to accomplishes this (registration here).

• efforts made to look for a webhook-based alternative.
  For instance: pyinstaller/pyinstaller issue 3579. But there are no clear answer yet.
  Update Feb. 2020: this issue is now closed (GitHub Actions are very much the standard now)

Answer 2

As far as I can tell, GitHub has now restored the previous functionality and even documented it again: https://help.github.com/articles/about-email-notifications-for-pushes-to-your-repository