No author assigned for automatic merges?

If you look at the merge status of !5577 (merged) it currently lists no author for the merge commit that was set to perform automatically after CI passed.

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Here is how it normally looks:

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I presume this is due to the auto-merge, but I have not dug any deeper into it.

/cc @jschatz1 @stanhu