Well... you can always subscribe into the Developers Thread, and put to alert you by email, when somebody post something in there, since it's a developers thread, it's certain to be news about the progress of things, and not some "stupid" comment.
You're right, this should do the trick. Just didn't want to be alerted by every unimportant comment. But you are right that there are only important posts in dev thread, so that should be fine