I just had a thought about this today, pagure supports sending notifications about PR or mail commits to a certain email address via its settings page so that may be able to help for this use-case.

@ppisar, can @pingou's suggestion solve it for you?

That would create inconsistencies. Old packages have perl-sig user in watchers and receives the notifications via this mechanism including bug reports, e.g. rpms/perl-Alien-pkgconf. While new packages misses the watcher and they were receiving notifications about commits only, e.g.
rpms/perl-Alien-PCRE2.

I have three problems with with proposal: First the mechanisms send notifications about different events, second I don't want to configure notifications on two different places, third I'm not going to click it manually for 2000 packages.

@pingou should we just move this to a upstream RFE to allow setting the watches via api / web interface?

Sounds reasonable, though I'm a little torn about letting people putting other people on watchers, seems like an easy cause of annoyance.

Filed https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/3174 on it.

Is there anything we can do in the mean time here? Perhaps add a list of packages via the db?

Or could we somehow get them access to the user so they can add new watches?

ok, with pagure 5.0 there is now an api endpoint for this.

@ppisar can you use this endpoint to add the pseuto-user to watch whatever packages you like?

Of if you can generate a list of packages just re-open this ticket and I can use the pagure-admin tool to add to all of them.

:game_die: