# How to udpate the watch status of someone in dist-git?

Let's start with: how to see someone's watch status?

There are two ways you can check this:

* Check the API

  Visit https://src.fedoraproject.org/api/0/<namespace>/<name>/watchers
  ie: https://src.fedoraproject.org/api/0/rpms/borgbackup/watchers

  it will give you information about all the watchers and what they watch.

* Using pagure-admin

  On the pagure host, run: 
  ``pagure-admin get-watch <namespace>/<name> <usernme>``, for example:
  ``pagure-admin get-watch rpms/borgbackup bpereto`` and it will return you the
  current watch status of that user on that project (or None if it is the
  default status).


Now how do you update this?

* Using pagure-admin

  On the pagure host, run: 
  ``pagure-admin update-watch <namespace>/<name> <usernme>``

  You will be prompted with options about which status to set, use ``-1`` to
  revert to the default status.

  Example:

    # pagure-admin update-watch rpms/borgbackup bpereto
    Using configuration file `/etc/pagure/pagure.cfg`
    The watch status can be one of the following:
    -1: reset the watch status to default
    0: unwatch, don't notify the user of anything
    1: watch issues and PRs
    2: watch commits
    3: watch issues, PRs and commits
    Status:-1
    Updating watch status of bpereto to -1 (reset the watch status to default) on rpms/borgbackup