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react-on-rails-release-train-issue-evaluation

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Use when evaluating React on Rails GitHub issues for release-train targeting, especially deciding whether new, follow-up, or non-started issues belong on release/17.0.0, another release/X.Y.Z branch, or main.

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React on Rails Release Train Issue Evaluation

Core Rule

Use this with $evaluate-issue. That skill answers "is this worth doing?"; this skill answers "does it belong on the active release train or on main?"

release/* receives only stabilizing fixes. Features, cleanup, docs, process work, non-blocking hardening, and ordinary follow-ups target main.

Workflow

  1. Refresh repo context: git fetch --prune origin main, then .agents/bin/agent-workflow-seam-doctor. Fetch the release branch if ancestry matters.
  2. Resolve candidates from live GitHub. For strict 48-hour windows, search by date then timestamp-filter locally because GitHub search is date-granular.
  3. Exclude started lanes. An issue is started when it has an assignee, linked/open implementation PR, private claim/heartbeat/branch, or implementation comment. Run agent-coord doctor --json, then targeted agent-coord status --repo shakacode/react_on_rails --target <issue> --json. Dead or expired claims count as started-but-stalled, not non-started.
  4. Read release context: active Release gate: tracker, release + TRACKING labels, the Agent Release Mode block, agent-coord phase when available, source PR base branches, and whether source commits are already on origin/release/X.Y.Z.
  5. Evaluate each candidate with $evaluate-issue: evidence source, impact, complexity, process gap disposition, and priority.
  6. Choose the target:
    • release/X.Y.Z: verified RC/final stabilizer such as an RC regression, hard-gate failure, install/upgrade blocker, security/data-loss/wrong-output bug, release-branch CI/release tooling blocker, or final-only public API/breaking-change decision.
    • release/X.Y.Z contingent: only needed if maintainers decide to cherry-pick a related main-only fix into the train. Name the dependency.
    • main: docs, changelog for main-only PRs, CI/tooling hygiene, tests, process automation, non-blocking runtime hardening, features, and performance/cleanup without release-gate proof.
    • park/close: P3, speculative, duplicate, no-PR evidence, or not worth doing.

Recommend labels/milestones/comments, but do not mutate GitHub unless the user explicitly authorizes writes.

Output

Use a compact table:

IssueStarted?EvidenceDispositionTargetRationaleNext action

Call out UNKNOWN facts explicitly, especially release tracker mode, source PR base, branch ancestry, and whether the issue is a confirmed RC regression.

Common Mistakes

  • Treating a title that says "before 17.0.0 final" as sufficient. Verify release-gate impact and branch ancestry.
  • Sending main-only follow-up defects to release/17.0.0 when the related fix is not on the release branch. Mark these contingent instead.
  • Using labels alone. Labels are hints; issue evidence and the release tracker decide.
  • Treating tracker Mode: development as "no release train." The branch can still exist; target selection still matters.