All very clear and reasonable, thanks for the helpful visualisations.
My only concern would be if the reflection period of two days over on Sat+Sun is too short. The gov team shouldn’t need to work weekends and could reserve the last Friday for such internal operations.
Three other remarks:
- Optionally, a reflection routine also seems useful beyond internal operations on a DAO level and could involve a forum thread (or other asynchronous process) to assess the sentiment by thought leaders where the next cycles should focus on in terms of time spent, funds allocated and which resources they’re missing. In aggregate, such information could save the DAO a lot of time if proposal are more aligned with the priorities of the core teams and influential Guardians.
- To bring (back) in a related issue: Shielded voting has been suggested before by @0xBaer, but not all concerns have been resolved. It could be worthwhile checking with @Luis from Shutter whether that is now the case. If so, and if shielded voting was to be enabled on Snapshot, strategic voting delays would be disincentivised. If votes are cast much earlier as a consequence, the voting period could even be reduced further.
- Great, that’s an underapprechiated objective and worth mentioning. Reminds me of Optimism’s newly released legitimacy framework and the importance of continuity.