Hi,

First things first, I think the auto-triage system is great for pruning
low-quality PRs from the maintainer/committer review queue so that genuine
contributors are not drowned out. So I must commend the project for
introducing it.

That being said, I’ve noticed that some PRs end up in a “needs maintainer
consensus / architectural decision” state rather than having concrete
author-actionable issues.

In those cases, the auto-triage agent can repeatedly surface secondary
issues while missing the real blocker, which creates a slightly misleading
signal for contributors. I hit this on one of my Kubernetes PRs where the
underlying issue was really maintainer alignment rather than unresolved
implementation problems.

Maybe it would help to introduce a category like 'pending maintainer
consensus” (ormore general 'misc' category) so the tooling can distinguish
between contributor follow-up and PRs that are effectively waiting on
reviewer direction.

I understand that with the volume of PRs nowadays, there is only so much
that can be done and perhaps this has already been brought up before. But
the main pain point (or at least what I have personally experienced) is
false negatives. This is more of an annoyance than a major blocker but I
was just curious if something could be done on the tooling side to
alleviate this issue.

Thanks,
Sameer Mesiah.

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