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Operationalizing repository collaboration observables

Date: 2026-08-29

Project-owner request

Work professionally across unclaimed repository issues, merge verified changes, and close only completed issues.

Selected issue and interpretation

Issue 86 asks that mathematical concepts become replaceable, measurable repository mechanisms. The selected bounded gap was the missing first-class review latency, concentration, recurrence, ownership, queue, CI, and structural debt layer, plus preregistration of the proposed latency-to-recurrence study.

Decisions

• Preserve normalized observations and explicit evidence mass rather than emit unexplained confidence numbers.
• Use deterministic bootstrap intervals only for observed medians, Beta-binomial summaries for bounded rates, and label HHI/queue/debt as descriptive state.
• Derive provisional strategy weights from verified outcomes, never activity.
• Preregister the community association study before outcome collection and explicitly deny a causal interpretation.

Remaining program gates

Issue 86 remains open: production policy still uses configured priors, real heterogeneous worker/verifier correlation evidence is absent, and the preregistered study has no enrolled outcome cohort yet.

Community impact

The fixture and standard-library CLI make the measurement definitions auditable without credentials or paid compute. Privacy minimization and no-authority outputs reduce incentives to turn volunteer activity into a ranking system.

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