ceremony/changelog.d/254.md
cndgrr b18168b4f3 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

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  • A post-merge item with no comment, review or commit 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).
  • 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).