Re: Gitlab Migration

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 30.08.2021 09:29, Drew DeVault wrote:
> On Mon Aug 30, 2021 at 1:17 AM CEST, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Consider adopting a "common practice" from the Web UI world: every
>> discussion (issue/PR/etc) has a unique email address. Every participant
>> receives messages "From:" a common address (like notifications@sr.ht)
>> but the Reply-To header includes the unique address which will let the
>> mail processor on the server associate the reply with the corresponding
>> thread and resend it to all participants.
> 
> We cannot add a similar "common practice", as it were, where each
> message comes From notifications@sr.ht, without breaking DKIM or PGP
> signatures, which we refuse to do.

This is about sender identity verification, right? No chance to delegate 
that responsibility to the SourceHut instance?

If the web interface allows users to create patchset email on behalf of 
the user, or even send messages to the mailing list from the web UI (not 
sure if such feature is present, but there will be a demand for it), you 
are already creating emails on their behalf anyway.

> But, we can track participation in
> each thread and subscribe users to threads even without a specific email
> address, by linking up the In-Reply-To chain. This is how I envision
> your ticket being addressed.

Will that affect only replies to later emails?

Either way, that means no reliable way to "unsubscribe from a thread". 
Unfortunate, but of course less important that being able to subscribe.