Re: Has there been a change in Git Mailing List settings? From list as sender to originator as sender?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2020, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20200918232805.GA1197580@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200918225326.GA1367@pug.qqx.org>

[+cc postmaster@vger; it looks like messages to the git-list stopped including a Sender header as of a few days ago]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Aaron Schrab wrote:

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> > Not to my knowledge. The smtp-level envelope from on all of the messages
> > I've received is git-owner@vger.kernel.org. Is there some other
> > mechanism you might be filtering on?
> 
> Comparing <20200911143321.GA2374950@coredump.intra.peff.net> with the
> message I'm replying to so that I'd have messages which I would expect to be
> similar before the list handling I see that that older message included the
> header
> 
>   Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org
> 
> But the newer message does not have a Sender: header.

Ah, thanks. I even looked for a Sender header, but I stupidly looked at too-recent messages, which of course didn't have one. :)

According to my local archive, we stopped getting Sender headers around 1600296026 (that's the timestamp when I received it), which was

  Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:11:50 -0400
  Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] t3200: avoid variations of the `master` branch name
  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200916211150.GA617237@coredump.intra.peff.net/

The message I received right before that was:

  Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:25:42 -0700
  Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] t/test-terminal: avoid non-inclusive language
  https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqo8m5v2g9.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/

which does have a Sender header (note those are out of order if you believe the client-side Date headers).

> I don't know if that was a deliberate change.

I don't know, but we don't really admin the list ourselves. kernel.org folks do, so they might have input.

-Peff