Issue Triage Bot for a Popular Eclipse Foundation Project
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a Go/Python GitHub Action to auto-label open-source issues with heuristics and TF-IDF. Deliver a pilot evaluation and verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The Eclipse project (Eclipse Foundation governance, used in 200+ downstream commercial IDE distributions, no commercial sponsor) needs triage relief without an LLM dependency the foundation hasn't approved.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Build a deterministic, LLM-free issue-triage bot for an Eclipse Foundation project that survives a 4-week pilot on 160 issues.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Build a GitHub Action with non-trivial heuristic logic
- Implement TF-IDF duplicate detection without an ML dependency
- Author templated maintainer comments that get repro info without sounding rude
- Evaluate triage precision/recall against maintainer ground truth
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Issue Triage
Apply issue triage to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Oss Contribution
Apply oss contribution to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Github Actions
Apply github actions to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Automation
Apply automation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Maintainership
Apply maintainership to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Heuristics
Apply heuristics to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: