The project carries 14 TTS + 11 ASR engines across 4 platforms with one
maintainer. That breadth is an asset only while every one of them still works;
otherwise it is a pile of support queues, and the first-run promise is what pays
for it.
So: engines are hired for a named job, not added to a list. Documents the job
map (each job has one holder), the seven conditions, the deprecation rule for
engines that lose their steward and their smoke test, and the out-of-tree path.
The point is to make "no" a property of the bar rather than a judgement of the
contributor — and to make "yes" fast when a proposal clears it. #1306 is the
first proposal judged against it.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
