Bootstrap Github

Have an account? If not register one.
- Register with your personal email, if possible, and not your company email.
Go to https://github.com/settings/profile and fill in some info and upload a picture.
Go to https://github.com/settings/emails and register your work email address.
- Keep the personal one as the primary one.
Go to https://github.com/settings/security and enable Two-factor.
Follow the instructions below and setup Github notifications.

Github notifications

Notifications are nice, and even necessary to have, but they need to come in the right amount and on proper channels.

The right amount can be fixed by going to https://github.com/settings/notifications and

turning off Notifications > Automatic watching > Automatically watch repositories
turning off Email notification preferences > Pull Request pushes.

The proper channels can be fixed by going to https://github.com/settings/emails and registering your secondary email addresses, like your work address, if you haven't done so already. Once that is done, go to https://github.com/settings/notifications#organization_routing and select your appropriate email addresses for each organization.

We access repositories via SSH (not HTTPS), so you need to

generate SSH key/s, if you didn't already
- see local instructions
- alternatively see github's instructions
add SSH key/s to your Github account
configure your ~/.ssh/config as per local instructions

You also need to click "Enable SSO" at https://github.com/settings/keys for your SSH key, if you are part of an organization behind SSO.

Same goes for "Personal access tokens", if you will ever need them to work with your organization: https://github.com/settings/tokens .