Re: Commit emails to -committers

Greetings,

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org) wrote:
> 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.

Cool.

> 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>

Hm, sure, either of those sounds good to me. I'd be inclined a bit more
towards the former so that it doesn't take up as much room.

Hadn't thought about that as I don't let random emails modify my
.mutt.aliases file. ;)

Thanks!

Stephen