Yes, you can have your own updates sent to you.
- Go to https://github.com/settings/notifications
- Check "Email" under Watching
- Then check "Include your own updates" in the section below
- Go to https://github.com/settings/notifications
- Check "Email" under Watching
- Then check "Include your own updates" in the section below
Ironically I wish this feature existed on Github (does it???). To be more specific, I wish I could get emailed when I make comments on PRs. As crazy as it sounds, it is much easier for me to track whether the comments have been addressed in a list of emails instead of trying to dig through Github's comment interface after I've made many different comments.
Of course this wouldn't be necessary if that compact list just existed in Github already...