Land the shortlist-reform rules approved by the maintainer (rules
first; entry sweeps are not authorized yet).
- CONTRIBUTING.md: replace the Industry Standard / Rising Star / Hidden
Gem lanes with a single admission rule per use case (up to 3 obvious
choices + up to 2 challengers, hard max 5), add Displacement, the
stdlib rule, and editorial-judgment-as-final evidence guidance; scope
test becomes Serves Python Developers; document entry ordering
(obvious choices then challengers, each alphabetical).
- README.md: add the shortlist promise paragraph pointing rejected
contributors to linked awesome-* catalogs and to CONTRIBUTING.md.
- CLAUDE.md: sync Key Rules with the new ordering and shortlist cap,
and add the prune-sweep one-commit-per-section exception.
- docs/adr/0001-shortlist-not-catalog.md: flip status from proposed to
accepted.
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Per maintainer choice, the new scope test replaces the old primarily-written-in-Python (>50%) requirement: implementation language and packaging no longer matter as long as Python developers use the thing in their Python work (e.g. uv and ty are Rust; agent skill packs are markdown), while pure-Python projects nobody uses in Python work still don't qualify. Folded into the existing ADR rather than filed as a separate one.
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ADR review found three stale claims: an unreviewed Testing dry-run cited as
evidence for the projected list size, the Challenger path missing from the
lane-rejection rationale, and no mention of judgment overriding known
failure modes of the download-signal (CI/dependency-inflated counts, model
weights vs. pip installs, large-but-specific audiences misread as niche).
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Cap changed to 3 obvious choices + up to 2 challengers (hard max 5)
during review, but the ADR still described the old cap of 3 with at
most one challenger.
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Records the outcome of a grilling session with the maintainer that
settled the redesign of awesome-python from a catalog into a curated
shortlist of Obvious Choices per Use Case. Execution is held pending
maintainer go-ahead, so these files let a fresh agent resume without
re-litigating settled decisions:
- CONTEXT.md: glossary of the editorial vocabulary (Use Case, Obvious
Choice, Challenger, Displacement, Split, etc).
- docs/adr/0001-shortlist-not-catalog.md: the ADR recording the
decision, considered options, and consequences (status: proposed).
- .gitignore: docs/ was wholesale-ignored; carve out docs/adr/ so the
ADR can be tracked.
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