Documentation: Recommendations for automation authorship

[zackkrida]

Problem

For various ethical and technical reasons, we should establish best practices when writing scripts that automate code actions:

• Committing to repositories
• Replying to issues and pull requests
• Automatically closing pull requests

We have a @cc-open-source-bot account that should be used as the author for all actions, workflows, and scripts. A few reasons to do this:

• We don't need to rewrite scripts to change their author attribution when staff or community members leave
• It makes it easy to audit our automations in the future, because all commits and messages will be associated with the single @cc-open-source-bot user account via the GitHub search, api, etc.

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Implementation

• I would be interested in implementing this feature.