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Taylor Eernisse 4185abe05d docs: add feature ideas catalog, time-decay scoring plan, and timeline issue doc
Ideas catalog (docs/ideas/): 25 feature concept documents covering future
lore capabilities including bottleneck detection, churn analysis, expert
scoring, collaboration patterns, milestone risk, knowledge silos, and more.
Each doc includes motivation, implementation sketch, data requirements, and
dependencies on existing infrastructure. README.md provides an overview and
SYSTEM-PROPOSAL.md presents the unified analytics vision.

Plans (plans/): Time-decay expert scoring design with four rounds of review
feedback exploring decay functions, scoring algebra, and integration points
with the existing who-expert pipeline.

Issue doc (docs/issues/001): Documents the timeline pipeline bug where
EntityRef was missing project context, causing ambiguous cross-project
references during the EXPAND stage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-09 10:16:48 -05:00
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Gitlore Feature Ideas

Central registry of potential features. Each idea leverages data already ingested into the local SQLite database (issues, MRs, discussions, notes, resource events, entity references, embeddings, file changes).

Priority Tiers

Tier 1 — High confidence, low effort, immediate value:

# Idea File Confidence
9 Similar Issues Finder similar-issues.md 95%
17 "What Changed?" Digest digest.md 93%
5 Who Knows About X? experts.md 92%
-- Multi-Project Ergonomics project-ergonomics.md 90%
27 Weekly Digest Generator weekly-digest.md 90%
4 Stale Discussion Finder stale-discussions.md 90%

Tier 2 — Strong ideas, moderate effort:

# Idea File Confidence
19 MR-to-Issue Closure Gap closure-gaps.md 88%
1 Contributor Heatmap contributors.md 88%
21 Knowledge Silo Detection silos.md 87%
2 Review Bottleneck Detector bottlenecks.md 85%
14 File Hotspot Report hotspots.md 85%
26 Unlinked MR Finder unlinked.md 83%
6 Decision Archaeology decisions.md 82%
18 Label Hygiene Audit label-audit.md 82%

Tier 3 — Promising, needs more design work:

# Idea File Confidence
29 Entity Relationship Explorer graph.md 80%
12 Milestone Risk Report milestone-risk.md 78%
3 Label Velocity label-flow.md 78%
24 Recurring Bug Patterns recurring-patterns.md 76%
7 Cross-Project Impact Graph impact-graph.md 75%
16 Idle Work Detector idle.md 73%
8 MR Churn Analysis churn.md 72%
15 Author Collaboration Network collaboration.md 70%
28 DiffNote Coverage Map review-coverage.md 75%
25 MR Pipeline Efficiency mr-pipeline.md 78%

Rejected Ideas (with reasons)

# Idea Reason
10 Sprint Burndown from Labels Too opinionated about label semantics
11 Code Review Quality Score Subjective "quality" scoring creates perverse incentives
13 Discussion Sentiment Drift Unreliable heuristic sentiment on technical text
20 Response Time Leaderboard Toxic "leaderboard" framing; metric folded into #2
22 Timeline Diff Niche use case; timeline already interleaves events
23 Discussion Thread Summarizer Requires LLM inference; out of scope for local-first tool
30 NL Query Interface Over-engineered; existing filters cover this

How to use this list

  1. Pick an idea from Tier 1 or Tier 2
  2. Read its detail file for implementation plan and SQL sketches
  3. Create a bead (br create) referencing the idea file
  4. Implement following TDD (test first, then minimal impl)
  5. Update the idea file with status: implemented when done