17.2 Project-level Notification Policies

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Project-level policy controls notification behavior for all activity inside a project.

Why it exists:

  • each project has different operational criticality,
  • same user may need different signal intensity across projects,
  • prevents noisy low-priority projects from spamming critical responders.

Typical model:

  • project enables/disables specific notification event groups,
  • policy applies to project members/participants for project events,
  • policy can override user-level enabled settings for that project.

Priority principle (recommended): project policy > user preference for project-scoped events.

Operational best practice:

  • start with failure/approval/cancel events enabled,
  • gradually add informational events only when teams prove they are useful,
  • review policy after incidents to improve relevance.