CC: @zooko @secparam @nathan-at-least @acityinohio
Dear @amiller or whoever this concerns at the Zcash Foundation,
After reviewing all publicly available information (see timeline), it is not clear why the precedent of 5 of N approval voting, set by past Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation, Josh Cincinnati, was not implemented for the inaugural MGRC election.
You were asked:
To which you incorrectly replied:
After debunking the response by easily implementing the precedent voting mechanism, myself, you followed-up to @mistfpga’s original question:
As we know, Josh confirmed the 5 of N mechanism on April 15, 2020, then again on May 14, 2020.
The precedent set by ex-Dir Josh Cincinnati was the voting mechanism that
the Zcash Community was told to expect for the vast majority of the inaugural MGRC election season.
In Josh’s Exit Letter on July 31, 2020, he warned: “consider what is and isn’t being said publicly”.
18 days later on a recorded community call, just 30 days before voting began, the mechanism was changed and considered off-of-the-agenda.
The change went unchallenged by the small handful of viewers on the call, but it is certainly a cause for concern (according to Josh’s, Nate’s and Ian’s language pictured below… plus my very own governance concerns of non-consent and election-engineering.
So I must ask,
Why didn’t we implement the voting mechanism set forth by precedent as we were expected to?
Thank you in advance,
For the zpl,
James
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mgrc-update-10-8-2020-and-meeting-minutes/37537/14?u=jmsjsph