H.4.2 Stewardship
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Stewardship says who maintains and understands an area; approval authority may be a separate role.
- Distributed ownership files, central services, and generated platform records trade update locality, contention, tooling, and failure behavior.
- Record maintainers, domain experts, escalation contacts, and retirement responsibility explicitly.
- Revalidate records as teams, products, and services change; syntactic validity can conceal operational abandonment.
- Keep ownership discoverable from search and during build or review degradation.
- A contributor may change code without accepting its long-term stewardship.
