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Introduce Private No-Reply Email Addresses for Git Commit Privacy

To better protect contributor privacy, I’d like to propose that we support private email addresses for Git commits—similar to GitHub’s noreply email system: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address#about-commit-email-addresses

The idea is to generate an address like id+username@noreply.eclipse-foundation.org, which would mask the user's real email while still allowing us to track contributions internally.

For example, since my username is cguindon and my ID is 9, my private Eclipse Foundation contribution email would be:

9+cguindon@noreply.eclipse-foundation.org

@wbeaton — do you have any concerns with this proposal?

Edited by Christopher Guindon