From 76167f0a2a137f3bbc4032e3db2d6ab3e7b74649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Meta Vens Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:59:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Correct Q18: a hand-off is a transfer, not a lease Self read the operator's lease example as the general case. It is one case: a steward can also spin off a new steward permanently. A hand-off is a transfer of stewardship with no lease field; a lease is two of them. The date-keyed stewardship stands because it is what lets a repo come back at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 --- notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md b/notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md index 0bb53c76..dd5a7e71 100644 --- a/notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md +++ b/notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md @@ -3220,11 +3220,16 @@ operator may simply want recorded. The operator: "I actually was not planning for such handoffs but I can definitely see it being useful for when a campaign has cross-cutting concerns and the main steward for it must lease another steward's - authority over a repo to resolve it." A hand-off is therefore a lease: - authority over a repo moves to the campaign's steward for the campaign's - duration and returns. Stewardship keys by repo and assignment date; the - in-force stewardship is the latest not withdrawn; Cut 12 admits the - return as a second hand-off. Mapped as a leaf cut with Q17's. + authority over a repo to resolve it." Self first read that as "a hand-off + is a lease"; the operator corrected it the same day: "A hand-off is not + *always* a lease. We might start with, say, Odin as steward over a whole + swarm of infra tools, and spin off a new steward only when the workload + justifies it. Odin wouldn't be getting it back in that case." So a + hand-off is a transfer of stewardship, symmetric and final as a record; a + lease is two transfers and carries no field of its own. Stewardship keys + by repo and assignment date; the in-force stewardship is the latest not + withdrawn; a return, when there is one, is an ordinary second hand-off. + Mapped as a leaf cut with Q17's. ## Target contradictions for Self to reconcile