[bisq-contrib] October voting is now complete

Thu Nov 9 10:43:26 UTC 2017

I’d like to open up a discussion here for feedback about the compensation request and voting process.

Generally, I think this went pretty smoothly—especially given that it was our first time—but there is no doubt room for improvement.

Here are a few observations from my side to get the ball rolling:

 - Pretty much everyone grouped together their work over the month into a single request titled “For October 2017”. This is perfectly fine, and it was me that kicked off that trend, but I want to mention that in many cases it may be better to issue compensation requests on a per-work item basis rather than grouping them together for the month. You can see an example of this in Mike’s Testing API compensation request at [1], which will be up for a vote in the next round.

 - I also noticed that at least one contributor did not vote for their own compensation request, while all other contributors did vote for themselves. I think we can just make it a practice to vote for ourselves. It’s natural enough to do, and nothing wrong with it in principle.

 - Bonding did not play the role that it should have in this round of voting, but we’ll get that worked out by the next time we vote, stay tuned.

If there are things you’d like to see changed the next time around, or if you have any other questions or feedback on the process, please do weigh in, thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/bisq-network/compensation/issues/8

> On Nov 9, 2017, at 11:32 AM, Chris Beams <chris at beams.io> wrote:
> 
> This is just a quick note to say that the October voting period is now complete. Here are the results, per the spreadsheet at [1]:
> 
> - 7 contributors issued compensation requests, all of which were approved
> - 7 stakeholders voted in total (2 of whom did not themselves submit compensation requests)
> - 48,500 BSQ were approved for creation
> 
> Please see [2] for more details on how the voting process was conducted, and note that we will rebase and re-distribute the new BSQ on testnet as soon as possible in [3].
> 
> Thanks to everyone who participated!
> 
> P.S.: The next voting round will take place December 1st–3rd, so please have your compensation requests in no later than November 30th.
> 
> [1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xlXDswj3251BPCOcII-UyWlX7o7jMkfYBE-IZ5te5Ck
> [2]: https://github.com/bisq-network/dao/issues/8
> [3]: https://github.com/bisq-network/dao/issues/9
> 
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2017, at 12:41 PM, Chris Beams <chris at beams.io> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to all who submitted compensation requests. We have 7 submissions total, which is a nice number for our first time going through this.
>> 
>> All requests have been added to the stake and vote tracking spreadsheet [1], and instructions on how to vote can be found at [2].
>> 
>> Remember, *everyone* who has BSQ stake can vote—not just those who submitted a request!
>> 
>> The voting period lasts 3 days. It begins with this email, which I’m sending on November 6th, and will end 72 hours from now on November 9th.
>> 
>> ACTION REQUESTED: please vote by end of your day (in whatever time zone you live in) on November 8th to be safe.
>> 
>> If you have questions about the process, feel free to ask here or in Slack, and if you have questions for individual contributors about their contributions, feel free to reach out directly, or ask questions via comments on the GitHub issues for their compensation requests—that way everyone can benefit from the discussion.
>> 
>> I’d also like to recommend that everyone click the "Watch” button on the https://github.com/bisq-network/compensation repository, so that you get notified immediately when people add new compensation requests or comment on each others’ existing requests. That should help keep everyone in the know about what’s going on and able to react quickly to new information (and you can always mute individual issues if something is getting too noisy).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> - Chris
>> 
>> [1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xlXDswj3251BPCOcII-UyWlX7o7jMkfYBE-IZ5te5Ck/edit#gid=0
>> [2]: https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc#how-to-vote
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 3, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Chris Beams <chris at beams.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As detailed in the Phase Zero plan at [1], October is the first month we’re doing compensation requests under the Bisq DAO. Several of us have already submitted, and you can browse through them at [2].
>>> 
>>> If you plan to submit, please do so by *end of day on November 5th* per the instructions at [3].
>>> 
>>> Voting will begin the next day, on November 6th [4], and complete end of day on November 8th. I’ll send out another email on the 6th as a reminder.
>>> 
>>> We’ll then rebase and re-distribute BSQ on testnet on November 9th. [5]
>>> 
>>> Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions about compensation requests. This stuff is all brand new, and there is much to figure out and discuss!
>>> 
>>> - Chris
>>> 
>>> [1]: https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc
>>> [2]: https://github.com/bisq-network/compensation/issues/
>>> [3]: https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc#how-to-request-compensation
>>> [4]: https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc#vote-on-the-first-3-days-of-each-month
>>> [5]: https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc#rebase-and-re-distribute-bsq-on-the-first-day-of-each-month
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