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@postgresql.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@postgresql.org>
>   To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
>   Reply-To: sfrost@snowman.net, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.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@postgresql.org.

The pgsql-bugs and pgsql-docs forms both use some placeholder text:
 From: PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>
 From: PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.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@postgresql.org>
or
 From: Committer Bot - on behalf of Stephen Frost <noreply@postgresql.org>

Thanks

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