Set icon_url and username when calling Slack's chat.postMessage API
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The as_user: true parameter seems to be ignored when
reply_broadcast is set to true, resulting in messages that have no icon and username as bot.
With reply_broadcast: true
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Without reply_broadcast
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So instead, in this MR, we set as_user: false and explicitly set the username and icon_url parameters to be the
bot's username and icon. as_user needs to be set to false because otherwise the username and icon_url parameters are ignored.
You can see examples of what the message looks like with as_user: false, username: 'GitLab Chatops', icon_url: 'https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2018-05-01/355645466080_4202bbc846089f270a4e_512.png' here: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C02U04A8VU4/p1649330479422739?thread_ts=1649046183.030769&cid=C02U04A8VU4.
Reference: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#authorship
gitlab-com/gl-infra/delivery#2225 (closed)
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