spend proposals including an already-chosen oversight committee
Purely from utilitarian pov here, I just don’t feel confident about enacting an election process for a proposal with our current tooling. I like the idea, but I think it would be very hard to do without a tech change to enable on-chain elections or something like that.
I’m not a fan of every spend prop having its own committee fully chosen by the team that makes the spend prop without other rules in place
The additional rules are the ones already enshrined by governance: that the proposal doesn’t pass if the community doesn’t want it to, and the entire workstream is suspended if the community sees that the committee isn’t serving its purpose.
I feel the same concern about a committee being fully chosen by the community without other rules in place. The community has governance-enshrined power over the process no matter what, but the funding recipients have none. Part of my optimism perspective is that the funding recipients know their work best, and are most equipped to choose appropriate stakeholders to report on their progress. The community’s job is to approve of their choice or reject it.
And while this is my belief, I can see what @BendyOne is saying about a high bar to entry. I’m not at all opposed to a proposal maker showing up and saying “Hey I have this great piece of work and have no idea who is equipped to provide oversight — I need the community to help me”. In this case, the proposal maker is forfeiting their side of the “nominate/approve” structure and I think that’s fine.
The same election issue crops up for me with a domain-specific committee, but there’s a bigger concern imo, in addition to the fiefdom issue that Jehan points out.
Being on a committee providing oversight involves work. It means staying close enough to the work that you understand it and can communicate about it to the broader community. The bigger the workstream, the more work it is to provide effective oversight.
Who amongst us is both qualified to provide oversight for a broad domain and has the time to do it properly? Even for a short term (3-6 months), it’s a lot of work. And a short term creates more churn and reduces the longterm effectiveness of oversight work because people rotate and lose context.