templates: heading IS the summary — drop the meta-label

The heading should not announce itself as 'plain English'; it should simply be the summary in everyday words. Meta-commentary removed from the heading line, instructions preserved in the comment block.
templates: plain-English heading carries the issue summary
2026-09-19 16:01:05 +01:00 · 2026-09-19 15:41:15 +01:00
6 changed files with 38 additions and 20 deletions
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ labels: bug
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->


@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@ labels: feature
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. A non-technical reader must be able
-     to retell this section. 3-6 sentences, no jargon. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. A non-technical reader must be able to retell this
+     section. 3-6 sentences, no jargon. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->


@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ labels: research
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->


@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ labels: bug
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->


@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@ labels: feature
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. A non-technical reader must be able
-     to retell this section. 3-6 sentences, no jargon. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. A non-technical reader must be able to retell this
+     section. 3-6 sentences, no jargon. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->


@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ labels: research
 assignees: conductor
 ---

-## Plain English — read this first
-<!-- TOP PRIORITY. If a technical detail below contradicts this section,
-     the issue is buggy — fix the issue. -->
+<restate the issue title here in everyday words — this heading IS the
+plain-English summary; no meta-labels like "plain English" in it>
+<!-- The heading above carries the summary itself — a scan of issue
+     headings alone should tell the whole story of the board. TOP PRIORITY:
+     if a technical detail below contradicts this section, the issue is
+     buggy — fix the issue. -->
 <!-- SUBMITTED_BODY -->
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conductor	a93327d107	templates: plain-English heading carries the issue summary Auto-label / priority-gate (pull_request) Skipped Details Auto-label / auto-label (pull_request) Successful in 2s Details CI Pipeline / lint (push) Successful in 40s Details CI Pipeline / canary (push) Successful in 34s Details CI Pipeline / best-practices (push) Successful in 3s Details CI Pipeline / documentation (push) Successful in 4s Details CI Pipeline / type-check (push) Successful in 31s Details CI Pipeline / gitea-offline (push) Successful in 15s Details CI Pipeline / lint (pull_request) Successful in 38s Details CI Pipeline / canary (pull_request) Successful in 32s Details CI Pipeline / best-practices (pull_request) Successful in 8s Details CI Pipeline / documentation (pull_request) Successful in 4s Details CI Pipeline / type-check (pull_request) Successful in 29s Details CI Pipeline / unit-tests (push) Successful in 4m37s Details CI Pipeline / gitea-offline (pull_request) Successful in 30s Details Spec gate (headless) / spec-gate (pull_request) Successful in 18s Details CI Pipeline / unit-tests (pull_request) Successful in 4m33s Details CI Pipeline / required-checks (push) Successful in 2s Details CI Pipeline / CI Pipeline / notify-event-bridge (push) Successful in 7s Details CI Pipeline / required-checks (pull_request) Successful in 3s Details CI Pipeline / CI Pipeline / notify-event-bridge (pull_request) Failing after 21s Details deploy / deploy (push) Failing after 13m5s Details The section header itself must restate the issue title in everyday words, so a scan of headings alone tells the story of the board. Applied to all three templates (web-UI + canonical copies) and retrofitted onto all 30 live issues.	2026-09-19 15:41:15 +01:00