Ref T7298. We are currently inconsistent about when we publish feed, email, notifications, audits and Herald rules.
Specifically, there are two settings which impact these things:
- The "importing" flag, which is set when we're importing old commits.
- The "herald-disabled" flag, which was expanded in scope some time ago and now actually means "disable publishing".
Various parts of the pipeline were checking only one of these flags. Instead, all of them should check both.
(For example, we should never email users about importing repositories, nor trigger audits on them.)