ceremony/changelog.d/254.md

### Added

- A `post-merge` item with no comment for 7 days now draws one nudge from the
  issue sweep: the wake evidence is owed. A starving criterion used to be
  found only when someone happened to run the right read (#254).
- Label churn does not reset that clock, and neither does an assignment: on
  `post-merge` an assignee is an invalid composition, not activity, and it
  must not buy the item another 7 days of silence (#254).
- The nudge names the triage actor from `triage-actors=`, not the human
  reviewer: `post-merge` is triage's completion queue, so the starved wake
  condition is triage's to answer (#254).
- It links the item and parses nothing from the body — which criterion
  starved is prose, and the machine never judges prose (#254).
- Like the ruling nudge it carries no idempotency marker on purpose: the
  comment is itself activity, so the rule self-rate-limits to one nudge per 7
  quiet days. Comment-only — no path here writes a label (#254).
docs(labels): quiet post-merge is visible, still never reclaimed LABELS.md said the sweep never reclaims post-merge and stopped there, which now reads as 'the machine says nothing' — after this change it says one thing, once per 7 quiet days. Plus the fragment. Refs #254 2026-08-03 23:08:11 +00:00			`### Added`

docs(labels): the evidence clock names what the sweep actually reads "a comment, a review or a commit" is the ruling nudge's house phrasing and false on the issue surface twice over: there is no review or commit fact in what the sweep reads, and an assignment is no longer counted here. Say what is read, and say what does not buy another 7 days of silence. Refs #254 2026-08-03 23:40:48 +00:00			- A `post-merge` item with no comment for 7 days now draws one nudge from the
			`issue sweep: the wake evidence is owed. A starving criterion used to be`
			`found only when someone happened to run the right read (#254).`
			`- Label churn does not reset that clock, and neither does an assignment: on`
			`post-merge` an assignee is an invalid composition, not activity, and it
			`must not buy the item another 7 days of silence (#254).`
docs(labels): quiet post-merge is visible, still never reclaimed LABELS.md said the sweep never reclaims post-merge and stopped there, which now reads as 'the machine says nothing' — after this change it says one thing, once per 7 quiet days. Plus the fragment. Refs #254 2026-08-03 23:08:11 +00:00			- The nudge names the triage actor from `triage-actors=`, not the human
			reviewer: `post-merge` is triage's completion queue, so the starved wake
			`condition is triage's to answer (#254).`
			`- It links the item and parses nothing from the body — which criterion`
			`starved is prose, and the machine never judges prose (#254).`
			`- Like the ruling nudge it carries no idempotency marker on purpose: the`
			`comment is itself activity, so the rule self-rate-limits to one nudge per 7`
			`quiet days. Comment-only — no path here writes a label (#254).`