@@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ guidelines for the community as a whole:

   to an email you are potentially sending to a large number of people. Please

   consider this before you update. Also remember that nobody likes spam.

+* Don't send email to the maintainers: There's no need to send email to the

+  maintainers to ask them to investigate an issue or to take a look at a

+  pull request. Instead of sending an email, GitHub mentions should be

+  used to ping maintainers to review a pull request, a proposal or an

+  issue.

+

 ### Guideline violations — 3 strikes method

 The point of this section is not to find opportunities to punish people, but we