Agency/docs/sites/CHANGE_TEMPLATE.md
Ryan Schultz 2bd59e53c9 docs: ADR 004; CHANGE_TEMPLATE; GitHub repo scope in config
- docs/decisions/004-no-per-repo-tier-weighting.md — records why all GitHub repos
  are weighted equally; prevents the question from being re-litigated from scratch
- docs/sites/CHANGE_TEMPLATE.md (renamed from RETIREMENT_TEMPLATE.md) — covers weight
  adjustments, scope changes, and full retirement in one template
- config.yaml — added github.repos list to define collection scope explicitly
- docs/sites/active/github.md — reverted to simple repo table; links to ADR 004
- docs/sites/active/README.md — GitHub section notes equal weighting with ADR 004 link
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — CHANGE_TEMPLATE linked from site governance section
- README.md — Contributing section links to both PROPOSAL_TEMPLATE and CHANGE_TEMPLATE

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-11 14:12:13 -05:00

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Site Change Proposal: [Platform Name]

Proposed by: [username] Date: [YYYY-MM-DD] Status: Proposed


What is changing?

Select the type of change:

  • Weight adjustment
  • Scope change — e.g. adding or removing specific repos, signals, or endpoints
  • Full retirement — remove this site entirely
  • Other modification

Current state: [Describe what the site/repo currently looks like in config.yaml and docs/sites/active/.]

Proposed state: [Describe exactly what you want it to look like after the change. If retiring, state that.]


Why is this change being proposed?

[What has changed — in the community, the platform, or the signal quality — that makes this change appropriate now? For retirements, select the primary reason:]

  • Platform became inaccessible or paywalled (violates ADR 003)
  • Data quality degraded — signal no longer meaningful
  • Gaming or manipulation detected
  • Community migrated away — platform no longer actively used
  • Platform shut down or became unstable
  • Community voted to remove
  • Other

Evidence

[Data, observations, or discussion that supports the change. For a weight increase, show increased activity or centrality. For a weight reduction or retirement, show reduced relevance, activity, or a specific incident.]


Impact

[Who or what is affected by this change? Does it reduce anyone's score meaningfully? Is that the intended outcome, or a side effect?]


If retiring: what happens to historical data?

[Describe what was done with any participation data already collected from this site. Was it zeroed out? Kept for historical comparison? Archived separately?]

Should this site ever be reconsidered? [Note any conditions under which this decision should be revisited — e.g. "reconsider if the platform restores public access" or "permanent — gaming risk too high."]


Was there disagreement?

[Note any dissenting views and how they were addressed. If the vote was close, record the margin — future contributors deserve to know if this was contested.]


Discussion

[Link to forum thread or other discussion, once opened.]