Issue Triage Bot for a Popular Eclipse Foundation Project

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Overview

What this challenge is about.

Issue Triage Bot for a Popular Eclipse Foundation Project. Intermediate challenge in code. Writing production code that solves real engineering problems, ear...

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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.

This is not a coding exercise. It is the work a software engineer does between a Jira ticket and a merged PR. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates solve LeetCode problems and none who have shipped production code under real constraints.

When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."

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.

Careers

Career paths this challenge builds toward

Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:

Career paths this builds toward

Canonical roles

Software Engineer
Software engineers turn intent into code that other people rely on, often without ever meeting them. The craft is broader than the languages — Python, Go, Java rotate in and out of fashion — and centers on judgment: which abstraction to introduce, which test to write first, which review comment matters and which is taste dressed up as principle. AI tools like Copilot and Claude Code accelerate the typing but raise the bar on knowing what to build. Strong engineers care about the people who'll maintain their code in two years, including their future selves. Students drawn to this path often started building things in high school and never stopped. Growth comes from shipping real systems, taking ownership when they break, and reading code written by people better than you.
Software Engineering

One more thing

You can put a credential on your CV by Friday.

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