Community Call Governance Workshop - October 12, 2022
In today's Governance Workshop, Jason provided updates on core docs, process enhancements for KIPs, and improved Sophon onboarding/offboarding.
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Governance Workshop is a biweekly, open meeting where we discuss specific proposals that are in progress and workshop new ideas about Rook's governance process.
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View the agenda for this event.
KIPs under Sophon discussion:
- KIP-33: Stake ALCX
- KIP-34: Labs Budget Request
- These KIPs have reached community consensus and are being discussed by Sophons. They will be going to a community vote after discussion is finalized.
Core docs: [1:40]
- A mission statement is being drafted.
- Governance documentation is undergoing draft revisions.
- Rook legal docs will be released soon.
Governance process:
- Jason summarized the work of the past quarter with the WEIR model (Workshop, Experiment, Iterate, Ratify) and used it to look ahead to next steps. [2:30]
- Development and improvement continues for the process of onboarding/offboarding/replacing Sophons. [4:30]
- Advances in stewardship have taken actual practice away from aspects of the process as defined in KIP-0, primarily in the area of non-decision tasks originally assigned to the Sophons.
- Participants discussed what the revision/amendment process should look like for KIP-0 and more broadly. [6:40]
- Possible amendment approaches include: the ability for new KIPs to be able to amend previous KIPs using the existing procedure; or maintaining an authoritative “active” source for which KIPs are simply a vector to introduce and track changes to this authoritative source. [9:30]
- There was also a discussion regarding defining “stewards” as a role in order to enhance community structure, including which aspects of their work should be firmly established in a KIP and which aspects should exist as more flexible documentation. [17:15]
- Perhaps “core” and “non-core” proposals should have different amendment processes, since the latter are more likely to be living documents that change over time. Introducing tunable parameters to KIPs could be a way to create built-in avenues for change. [23:00]