Trial run a Technical Advisory Board (TAB)

[jengajojo]

@SEEDGov

Except for the last point, we believe that the rest of the listed tasks are inherent responsibilities of all delegates. Delegates are compensated to review proposals, provide feedback, raise concerns when misalignments are detected, and vote — as explicitly stated and approved in the Uniswap DAO Principles.

This is an accurate observation, however there is a difference between responsibility and ability to execute on these tasks. The existing incentive schemes have not found a way to incentivize these without making the evaluation highly subjective. Hence the DAO ends up optimizing for quantitive elements which do not necessarily offer technical feedback.

Another challenge is that many delegates use a team account instead of a personal account to participate in conversations, this disallows the broader community to understand if the feedback is coming from a technical expert or a full-time governance role holder in that team.

We acknowledge that the first iteration of the six member TAB comes as a concrete proposal. This is based on our conversations with various teams, who are already part of the uniswap community by playing various roles such as builders, developers, security experts and researchers. We are open to understanding why specifically any of the suggested team members are underqualified or are in any way not considered part of the DAO.

@Doo_StableLab

There are weeks without proposals but there are also weeks that have several proposals

I agree with this opinion, hence we expect some members to be more active than others not only as a function of time, but also as a function of expertise and role. This does indeed mean that there will be variations in activity based on different factors, not just time. However evaluating each contribution becomes a subjective endeavor which can potentially become equally cumbersome to coordinate. On the other hand working as a team allows members to step in at the right moment and support each other as opposed to competing, with may lead to domination of opinions from people who have more flexible schedules than others to manage with a full-time job.

@kpk

As @jengajojo highlighted, increasing the technical awareness of the larger delegate cohort is a particularly important and valuable goal — we agree this should be tackled.

This is exactly the goal we are trying to achieve and based on the comments so far, it seems that delegates are not opposed to it. We believe that this awareness will be enhanced, not only by educational activities, but also feedback which come directly from experts as well as the ability to voice this opinion via participation in voting.