Re: Commit emails to -committers

On 2021-Aug-19, Stephen Frost wrote:

> Having had reasonable success with using Reply-To on the -docs and -bugs
> mailing lists to have replies go to the correct place while emails come
> from the noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org address, we (pginfra) are thinking of
> starting to do the same for the automated emails to the -committers
> list.
>
> Specifically, we're contemplating something like:
>
> From: Stephen Frost <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> Reply-To: sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
>
> being the structure of emails from the commit script.

Overall this looks good to me. I especially like having the
Reply-To: -hackers.

One thing I don't like is the proposed From:. Setting things that way
sometimes causes people's MUAs to record the given address to the
person's name -- and I'm sure both parties would be upset if they sent
email to Stephen Frost and it ended up delivered to
noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)

The pgsql-bugs and pgsql-docs forms both use some placeholder text:
From: PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
From: PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>

So I suggest that the From should have some other text, not the
unadorned person's name. It doesn't have to be something as impersonal
as what we use for the forms; maybe we can just prefix it:

From: Committer Stephen Frost <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
or
From: Committer Bot - on behalf of Stephen Frost <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>

Thanks

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