Review community triage guidance against the internal Triage status #2671

Problem

The accepted Base governance design and implementation plan identify package 8/O10 as a required deliverable. This issue translates that package into a reviewed, bounded issue/PR train; it does not authorize implementation before the issue reaches Ready.

Expected behavior

Review docs/community-triage.md against the accepted internal lifecycle, where Triage follows Backlog and means analysis/readiness work. Decide whether public community intake guidance should stay distinct, be clarified, or be updated. This is a decision/recommendation issue; do not change public wording until the maintainer accepts the disposition.

Scope and non-goals

Scope: Review docs/community-triage.md against the accepted internal lifecycle, where Triage follows Backlog and means analysis/readiness work. Decide whether public community intake guidance should stay distinct, be clarified, or be updated. This is a decision/recommendation issue; do not change public wording until the maintainer accepts the disposition.

Non-goals: Do not silently expand scope, activate unreviewed policy, mirror issue fields onto PRs, grant agents merge/release authority, or make changes outside the named affected areas. Any new product decision or materially new work gets a separate issue and decision record.

Affected areas

• docs/community-triage.md and docs/github-workflow.md (review only).
• Accepted source: governance design and implementation plan, PR #2664
• Parent tracker: #2665

Impact and evidence

1. Product intent: Implements only the accepted governance design and plan; any product-requirement change must be filed separately.
2. Architecture and contracts: Destination is the package-specific section of the merged governance design/implementation plan plus the affected canonical contract named above.
3. User guidance: The issue identifies likely guidance paths; the implementation PR must name updated user/FAQ/README paths or give a change-specific reason why none is affected.
4. CLI/API and reference: The affected-area list determines whether CLI/API/reference docs change; the implementation PR must cite the exact reference path or justify no impact.
5. Operations and safety: No privileged automation or merge authority is implied; the PR must list operational/security effects and any rollback.
6. Validation and testing: The issue lists the planned tests; the PR must report executed validation and explain any unavailable test.
7. Examples and downstream use: The implementation PR must identify affected examples/consumers or give evidence that this change has no downstream surface.
8. Governance and contributor process: This package changes or preserves the contributor/governance contract as described in Scope; links must point to the canonical rules.
9. Decision records: No new decision is accepted by this issue; any durable deviation requires a proposed decision record and explicit maintainer acceptance.
10. Release notes: The PR must include a user-facing release-note line or a reasoned none; this issue does not pre-decide that disposition.

These are issue-stage dispositions to refine during Triage. Before Ready, every category must have its exact destination or evidence-based no-impact reason; the PR repeats the ten-category evidence for actual changes.

Open questions

• None known. If implementation exposes an unresolved contract, return this issue to Triage and record the decision before implementation continues.

Plan

• S1: One focused PR for this issue. Use Fixes #N only if no additional slice is needed; if the maintainer approves multiple PRs, name each S1…Sn here before the first is opened and use Part of #N.
• Dependencies: None known.
• Acceptance criteria:
• The review compares each public use of triage with the internal Project status and cites exact sections.
• A maintainer-approved disposition is recorded: retain distinct meanings, clarify wording, or propose a separate doc PR.
• No status/schema or community doc change is made without that recorded decision.
• Any implementation follow-up is filed as a separate issue/PR with an impact map.
• Validation:
• Read the current community guide and internal workflow/status definitions at the reviewed revisions.
• Check the proposed disposition for contributor-facing ambiguity and link validity.
• Risks and rollback: Public and internal uses of triage may be conflated; preserve separate terms or clearly label context. No rollback needed until a later doc PR.
• Decision impact: No decision is accepted merely by implementing the issue. Record the relevant accepted decision/ADR and file a superseding record if the maintainer approves a change.