This is a draft proposal that is seeking feedback from the community! It is intended to go through the March proposal cycle.
Purpose
This is a Social Proposal to gain consensus around proposed changes to the monthly proposal cycles and proposal types outlined in the Radworks Governance Manual.
Overview
The proposed updates are made by the Governance Committee and are based on feedback collected in the Governance Feedback Survey and learnings gathered throughout the last year. These updates aim to improve our monthly proposal cycles by clarifying expectations of proposal authors, introducing more time for feedback and proposal revision, and reducing overhead during the proposal review process. We have a lot more improvements to make but wanted to introduce a couple that we believe will improve our monthly proposal cycles for everybody.
Proposed Changes: (see Reasoning & Analysis section below for more details)
- Require proposals to be posted on the first Monday of the monthly proposal cycle, rather than the second.
- Move the monthly Proposal Review call to the second Monday of each month, instead of the second Wednesday.
- Update names of proposal process phases: change “Discussion” phase to “Request for Feedback (RFF)” phase
- Remove “Consensus” as a proposal type
Over the past few weeks the Governance Committee has revised the Governance Manual to provide additional clarifications and expectations for proposal authors on the existing governance process. We have also created additional templates for proposal authors to streamline their experience moving proposals through governance. These changes do not require a Social Proposal to implement, as they are improving resources that support the existing process.
The proposed changes outlined above, however, would change various aspects of the proposal process and monthly cycles. Therefore, they require community approval to implement. Since the proposed changes are all off-chain, this proposal only requires off-chain approval.
Implementation
If this proposal passes, the Governance Committee will be responsible for updating the relevant documentation, including:
Updating the Proposal Process, Proposal Cycles, and Proposal Review sections of the Governance Manual
Removal of the Consensus Proposal from the template library and from the Proposal Types section of the Governance Manual
These changes are captured in the follow two pull requests which will be merged upon community approval:
- PR #83: Update Proposal Cycle chart
- PR #84: Remove “consensus” proposal type & change “Discussion” to “RfF”
Current Proposal Cycle:
Proposal Cycle Including Proposed Changes:
Reasoning & Analysis
Proposed Changes
Change 1: Require “Proposals Discussions” to be posted under Proposal Drafts on the first Monday of the monthly proposal cycle, rather than the second.
- Reasoning: We’ve received a lot of feedback that proposal authors and community members need more time to discuss and review proposals. Requiring proposals to be submitted earlier will give proposal authors more time to receive and implement feedback before the Proposal Review call.
Change 2: Move the monthly Proposal Review call to the second Monday of each month, instead of the second Wednesday.
- Reasoning: Sometimes it’s easier to discuss feedback and changes during the Proposal Review call vs. on the forum. Moving the Proposal Review call to Monday allows proposal authors a full week to incorporate any feedback or address any issues raised in these calls before moving into the Formal Review the week after.
Change 3: Update names of proposal process phases: change “Discussion” phase to “Request for Feedback (RFF)” phase
- Reasoning: Discussions on proposals are ongoing, and they often remain on the forum for deliberation beyond the initial two weeks of a proposal cycle. During this governance phase, the primary need for proposal authors is feedback from the community. To clarify this request and differentiate it from general proposal discussion, we suggest renaming this phase to the “Request for Feedback” phase.
Change 4: Remove “Consensus” as a proposal type.
- Reasoning: The Social proposal and Consensus are very similar. This proposal type has also not yet been used by the community, and in order to simplify the options, we propose to remove this proposal type.
Next Steps
In your comments, we request that you express your support or disagreement with each proposed change. If a particular change receives widespread disapproval or disagreement, we will exclude it from the final proposal.
If there are any other additional changes to the governance process or resources you would like to suggest, please drop them below. While the Governance Committee is responsible for continuing to improve Radworks’ governance processes, anyone is welcome to submit Social Proposals suggesting additional improvements to the governance process or resources. Please see this contributing.md for more details.
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