email notifications

docs/REFERENCE.md

@@ -819,6 +819,8 @@ postgresql:
 
 **Email Notifications**: Enabled (`ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL: true`). SMTP credentials injected via `gitea-smtp-secret` using `additionalConfigFromEnvs` with `GITEA__mailer__USER` / `GITEA__mailer__PASSWD` environment variables.
 
+**Auto-Watch**: Disabled (`AUTO_WATCH_ON_CHANGES: false`, `AUTO_WATCH_NEW_REPOS: false`). Prevents contributors from being auto-subscribed to repo notifications on push, reducing email noise from CI bots (e.g., ai-review PR comments). Users who were already watching before this change need to manually unwatch or switch to "Only participating".
+
 **Endpoints**:
 - Web UI: `https://git.forteapps.net`
 - SSH: port 22 (ClusterIP)

infra/values/base/gitea-values.yaml

@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ gitea:
       ALLOW_ONLY_EXTERNAL_REGISTRATION: true
       ENABLE_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION: true
       ENABLE_PASSWORD_SIGNIN_FORM: false
-      ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL: true
+      AUTO_WATCH_ON_CHANGES: false
+      AUTO_WATCH_NEW_REPOS: false
+      ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL: false
+      ENABLE_TIMETRACKING: false
 
     openid:
       ENABLE_OPENID_SIGNIN: false