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Scot Breitenfeld 7c7a64b7b7 Review automation: fix comment-only reviewer drop and draft-stale thrash (#6658)
* review-checklist: don't lose a reviewer who only left comments

GitHub un-requests a reviewer the instant they submit any review,
including a comment-only one from batching several inline comments into
a single submission — not just Approve/Request-changes. Unlike a stale
approval, this never produces a DISMISSED transition, so the checklist
had no way to tell "abandoned the area" apart from "still reviewing,
just hasn't finished yet."

This silently dropped the reviewer's mention from the checklist display
the moment they left comments, and risked the next push's additive-fill
picker handing their area to a completely different load-balanced
reviewer (observed on PR #6645: jhendersonHDF's batched review comments
repeatedly vanished him from src/test's rows mid-review).

Track a sticky area assignee as still engaged whenever they have no
APPROVED/CHANGES_REQUESTED/DISMISSED review on record, regardless of
whether GitHub currently lists them as requested, and use that in the
read-only display path, resolveAreaPicks, and the additive-fill picker.

* draft-pr-policy: a checked keepalive checkbox is real activity too

lastRealActivityAt() deliberately ignores bot comments so a metadata-only
bump can't dodge the staleness check forever. But checking the "Still
working on this" checkbox is an edit to the bot's own keepalive comment,
not a new comment of the human's own — its author stays
github-actions[bot], so the edit was invisible to the activity check too.

Confirming via the checkbox removed the label and posted "Thanks for
confirming" without ever moving the underlying 60-day clock, so the very
next scheduled run saw the same stale last-activity timestamp and
immediately re-flagged it — contradicting the checkbox's own promise
that checking it "resets this".

Observed on #6326: once its true last activity fell behind the 60-day
window, and only the checkbox (never a new commit or comment) was used
to confirm it, the label thrashed on and off on a roughly 1-2 day loop.

Now a checked keepalive checkbox counts via the comment's updated_at
(when it was toggled), same as any other real activity signal.
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