When you’re a contributor to a project, it’s good to keep tabs on how the project is doing. One way is through GitHub notifications. Chapter 1 covers how to manage notification settings. GitHub can send notifications for new issues, new comments on pull requests, and so on. It’s important to manage your notification settings based on your interest level in the project.
While GitHub may be the hub of open source, a lot goes on outside of GitHub related to an open source project. You may want to look at the places where a project lives outside of GitHub. For example, many projects have a Twitter account you can follow. Some projects have a public Slack instance where you can chat with the maintainers and others who use the project. You also may want to read the blogs of the maintainers of those projects to keep on top of the latest developments. Many projects and project maintainers still publish RSS feeds, an ancient technology that makes it possible to keep up with a site.
Source: Guthals Sarah, Haack Phil (2019), GitHub for Dummies, Wiley.