GQ-016 · Persistent Project Ownership

How can persistent project owners complete authorized work while preserving intent, recovery and necessary human control?

SISO Open Source Foundation

experimental

scoped

Not declared

Define the minimum public-safe question program before scheduling research.

No selected release

Not released — the selected Release has no public answer artifact.

hybrid

Choose ownership, routing and handoff practices that reduce avoidable intervention without losing accountability.

An owner reaches the real acceptance gate with current source, scope and evidence available to a successor. · Distinguish the owner's report, independent acceptance and actual release of write authority.

Reduced coordination produces more scope errors, lost corrections, duplicate writers or rejected outcomes. · A successor can locate handoff files but cannot recover the actual evidence and next action.

A handoff-file count or quiet coordinator does not establish autonomous delivery or reliable succession.

New owner-approved outcome or counterexample changes the decision evidence. · The relevant source, operating constraint or acceptance boundary materially changes.

Public project ownership and handoff contracts · Authorized owner delivery, recovery and review evidence

One observed ownership and recovery case with the acceptance boundary, intervention/rework accounting and reusable limits.

Review when relevant owner evidence or decision conditions change; registration starts no collector, benchmark, scheduler or new execution lane.

public metadata only