Re: Commit emails to -committers

On 2021-Aug-23, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> > * Daniel Gustafsson (daniel(at)yesql(dot)se) wrote:
> > > > On 20 Aug 2021, at 15:56, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > > >> For that reason I'd lean towards having something just be "PostgreSQL
> > > >> commits <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>" and not put the name in there at all
> > > >> -- the name would of course go in the body.
> > > >
> > > > That'd be OK with me.
> > >
> > > +1, I think that’s the preferrable option.
> >
> > I'm alright with that, but would want to have the committer somehow
> > mentioned in the email somewhere or maybe in the subject..? Otherwise
> > it's entirely unclear who the committer is without going to the actual
> > git repo and that seems like a general reduction in usability.
>
> ... and obviously I didn't read the complete comment above which says
> explicitly that it'd go in the body. :)

Just for the record, I don't like that and I would prefer that the
committer name appears as a trailing atom at the end of the From text,
since that shouldn't cause any usability issues, judging from the user
stories we know about.

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