ceremony/changelog.d/284.md
dan-claude-bot 48547d5eb1 fix: the issue-side ruling clock reads comments only (#284)
Claiming a needs-ruling issue dated it through the assigned timeline
event, silencing the 7-day escalation nudge at exactly the moment a
builder started working through it. The ruling block now reads
last_issue_comment_activity (D1); the reclaim clock keeps the assignment
(D2) because there the assignment IS the claim; post-merge hands its
evidence read to the ruling block instead of reading again (D6, D7); the
claimed branch reads both clocks at its top, before anything it posts.
LABELS.md and lib/ruling.sh now say what each surface's clock reads
(D4, D5). The #257-era order compositions move to the comments read —
the timeline is no longer an input the issue clocks take, and its
unreadability no longer holds unrelated writes hostage; that narrowing
is pinned rather than implied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 16:16:19 +00:00

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Fixed

  • Claiming a needs-ruling issue no longer buys its escalation another 7 quiet days: the issue-side ruling clock reads comments alone — an assignment is the claim clock's fact — and LABELS.md now names what each surface's clock reads (#284).