ceremony/changelog.d/254.md
cndgrr fd9da98abf 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

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  • 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).