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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ the [pull request history](quality/pull-requests-and-reviews.md) covers them.
 
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-| Updated | 2026-10-16 |
+| Updated | 2026-10-31 |
 | Scope | The repositories of level 1 of the [open-source scope](open-source-scope.md) |
 | Times | UTC, as GitHub records them |
 
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Issues labelled `good first issue`: each says what to change, where, and how to
 | [coretrace#163](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/163) Remove the unused `colors.hpp` | 2026-10-02 | thanvish21 | Merged, [#165](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/165), the same day |
 | [coretrace#164](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/164) Unit tests for `RunDirectory` | 2026-10-02 | tecnolgd, assigned 2026-10-13 | Merged, [#197](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/197), 2026-10-16 |
 | [coretrace#167](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/167) Move `isMangled` out of the public header | 2026-10-04 | tecnolgd | Merged, [#168](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/168), 2026-10-08 |
-| [coretrace#175](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/175) Remove `USE_EXTERNAL_CLI11` | 2026-10-13 | — | Open |
-| [coretrace#177](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/177) `const` reference in `findStackAnalyzerSection` | 2026-10-13 | — | Open |
+| [coretrace#175](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/175) Remove `USE_EXTERNAL_CLI11` | 2026-10-13 | glitchjay-hub, assigned 2026-10-30 | Merged, [#217](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/217), 2026-10-31 |
+| [coretrace#177](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/177) `const` reference in `findStackAnalyzerSection` | 2026-10-13 | glitchjay-hub | Merged, [#214](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/214), 2026-10-29 |
 | [coretrace-gui#81](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace-gui/issues/81) Light and dark themes | 2026-10-01 | — | Open |
 | [coretrace-gui#85](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace-gui/issues/85) Breadcrumb contrast | 2026-10-09 | — | Open |
 | [coretrace-gui#86](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace-gui/issues/86) Keyboard access to the "Analyser" menu | 2026-10-09 | — | Open |
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ Issues labelled `good first issue`: each says what to change, where, and how to
 The five tickets of `coretrace` opened from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-04 were all taken by people
 outside the team, and all five are merged: four within four days of being opened, the fifth,
 #164, three days after it was assigned. One contributor, tecnolgd, came back for a second
-ticket, then a third.
+ticket, then a third, then asked for #173, which is not a welcome ticket.
+
+The two tickets opened on 2026-10-13 waited nearly two weeks, then were both taken by
+glitchjay-hub, who came back for #175 after #177. #177 drew three pull requests within two days,
+before the requests on the issue had an answer: the ticket went to the first to ask, and the two
+other pull requests were closed as duplicates, with their reasons. All seven welcome tickets of
+`coretrace` are now merged; the three of the GUI are still open.
 
 ### March 2026
 
@@ -61,10 +67,20 @@ below).
 | 2026-10-08 | tecnolgd | [coretrace#168](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/168), move `isMangled` to its source file (welcome ticket #167) | 3 h | A follow-up commit, explained: it restored the documentation comment and corrected a wording that the issue itself had got wrong | **Merged with modifications, argued** in the pull request |
 | 2026-10-13 | tecnolgd | Asked for [coretrace#164](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/164) | Same day | — | **Assigned** |
 | 2026-10-15 | tecnolgd | [coretrace#197](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/197), unit tests for `RunDirectory` (welcome ticket #164) | 20 h | Thanks in the pull request, then a follow-up commit pushed on the contributor's branch, explained in its message: the location is checked as a directory rather than as a string prefix, and the test follows the naming of the other tests | **Merged with modifications** |
+| 2026-10-26 | glitchjay-hub | Asked for [coretrace#177](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/177) | 2 days 16 h | One answer on the issue to both requests: the ticket goes to the first to ask | **Accepted** as the first to ask |
+| 2026-10-26 | glitchjay-hub | [coretrace#214](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/214), `LoadContext` by `const` reference (welcome ticket #177) | 2 days 14 h | Opened two hours after the request, before its answer; the answer on the issue announced the review, and the pull request was thanked once merged | **Merged** as proposed; the title became a Conventional Commit at the merge |
+| 2026-10-27 | hazzyadil | Asked for [coretrace#177](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/177) | 1 day 14 h | The same answer, which offered [#175](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/175) instead | **Declined, with reasons**: another contributor had asked first |
+| 2026-10-27 | tecnolgd | Asked for [coretrace#173](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/173) | 2 days 13 h | — | **Assigned** |
+| 2026-10-27 | Mayur-dambale | [coretrace#215](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/215), the same change (welcome ticket #177), opened without asking on the issue | 2 days 16 h | Closed on 2026-10-28 as a duplicate of #214; the reasons followed in the pull request on 2026-10-30, with what a review would have raised: the format check, the issue link, the checklist, the commit type | **Declined, with reasons** |
+| 2026-10-27 | hazzyadil | [coretrace#216](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/216), the same change (welcome ticket #177), opened before the request on the issue had an answer | 1 day 1 h | The answer on the issue announced one in the pull request; closed the same day as a duplicate of #214, and the reasons followed there on 2026-10-30, with advice on waiting for the assignment, the commit email and the title | **Declined, with reasons** |
+| 2026-10-29 | glitchjay-hub | Asked for [coretrace#175](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/175) | 22 h | — | **Assigned** |
+| 2026-10-30 | hazzyadil | Asked for [coretrace#176](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/issues/176) | 40 min | Pointers in the issue, including a second place to change that the issue did not name | **Assigned** |
+| 2026-10-30 | glitchjay-hub | [coretrace#217](https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace/pull/217), remove `USE_EXTERNAL_CLI11` (welcome ticket #175) | 19 h 50 | Approved with the review tool, which explained a follow-up commit pushed on the contributor's branch: it restored two documents the maintainers keep, which the issue's acceptance criterion had led the contributor to edit | **Merged with modifications, argued** in the pull request |
 
 Every contribution got a first answer, and every decision is written in the pull request or the
-issue it concerns. Of the nine contributions of October, eight were accepted; the ninth, from a
-bot, was declined with its reason.
+issue it concerns. Of the thirteen contributions of October, ten were accepted. Three were
+declined with their reason: one from a bot, and two pull requests that duplicated #214, for a
+ticket another contributor had asked for first.
 
 ## How contributions are handled