Re: Commit emails to -committers

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> >>> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> >>>> For that reason I'd lean towards having something just be "PostgreSQL
> >>>> commits <noreply@postgresql.org>" and not put the name in there at all
> >>>> -- the name would of course 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.
>
> The complaints I've heard about have to do with autocomplete on the first
> few characters, so I agree that that probably wouldn't trigger with
> something like "Committed by Stephen Frost <noreply@postgresql.org>".
> Whether that's free of other usability issues is another story.
> In my preferred email list display, much of the actual committer's
> name would disappear thanks to the column length limit ... probably
> not so much that I couldn't tell who was who, but other people might
> have more trouble with that.

We could possible use "C: Stephen Frost" instead..?  How do folks feel
about that?

Thanks,

Stephen