How do I get notifications on new GitHub issues?
I believe @boechat107 is correct about watching the repo. If you select Watch > All Activity in the upper right, you should start getting notifications:
I know I'm late to this topic, but I've created a Chrome extension which allows you to receive notifications from GitHub repositories you can specify so you will not miss issues again.
Whenever an issue is opened on the repository(s) you've selected, a notification will be sent to you. Similarly, whenever someone creates a pull request, it will notify you as well.
Steps:
Install the Chrome extension here
Click on the installed Chrome Extension on the top right of Chrome and fill in your Git username
Enable permissions on your GitHub here
Actually, this one was a bit tricky. I didn't realize that notifications work slightly different with organizations. Sorry, I really forgot about this question and I can't tell you exactly how to configure it as this was a while ago - but if you stumble over this, and you are trying to get notifications for issues that are in organization projects, you should read this:
http://alexking.org/blog/2011/11/28/not-getting-github-notifications
whose key point is (a quote from Github support):
Users in the Owners group don’t receive notifications. You need to create a normal team and add yourself to it to get notifications for that team’s repos.