justinmclean opened a new pull request, #227:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow-steward/pull/227
Adds the `contributor-nomination` skill — a read-only nomination brief
generator for a named GitHub contributor on `<upstream>`. Also adds a
project-config template and a 21-case eval suite covering the four
judgment steps.
## What this adds
### Skill — `.claude/skills/contributor-nomination/`
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `SKILL.md` | Five-step workflow: resolve inputs → pre-flight → fetch →
assess → render |
| `assess.md` | Assessment criteria: signal track identification, community
interaction, off-GitHub signal, project-context calibration, quality signals,
vendor neutrality |
| `fetch.md` | GitHub CLI queries for the four activity streams (PRs,
reviews, issues, comments) with pagination and month bucketing |
| `render.md` | Nomination brief layout — contributions table, community
interaction, activity timeline, narrative template |
Key design decisions:
- **All contribution tracks carry equal weight.** Code, review, docs,
testing, mailing-list, user support, release management, and mentoring
appear side by side in one table. No track is privileged.
- **Merit is project-specific.** The skill explicitly names and flags
two anti-patterns: title-based nomination (giving committership for
job title rather than demonstrated contribution) and reputation import
(nominating on the strength of contributions to *other* projects).
Both are incompatible with the Apache meritocracy model.
- **Merit once earned never expires.** The activity timeline is a
neutral factual record. Gap flags and consistency ratings are absent —
they imply recency is a virtue, which it is not.
- **Candidate privacy protected.** Off-GitHub signal must come from the
nominator's own knowledge and public archives, not from approaching
the candidate. ASF nominations are private until a vote passes.
- **GitHub projects only.** A callout at the top of SKILL.md notes that
the automated fetch steps require the GitHub CLI.
- **Prompt injection handled.** External content (PR titles, PR bodies,
review comments, issue text) is treated as untrusted input data.
Injection attempts are flagged to the nominator and do not affect the
assessment.
### Project-config template —
`projects/_template/contributor-nomination-config.md`
Adopter-facing template for declaring the assessment window and optional
PMC-agreed thresholds. Default committer bar raised to 5 merged PRs
and PMC bar to 10. Thresholds are optional — if absent, the
skill asks the nominator for the project's typical bar at run time.
### Eval suite — `tools/skill-evals/evals/contributor-nomination/`
21 cases across 4 steps. All pass.
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