The Foundation would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Collective Feedback Commission for all their contributions over the past year. The Collective’s evolution depends on contributors’ willingness to experiment, iterate, and try new things and we appreciate the willingness of members of the commission to do just that.
The original vision of the Collective Feedback Commission was to create a sort of “core governor” program that would work to establish metagovernance processes for the Collective, taking inspiration from core development programs. While members’ contributions have informed and influenced metagovernance design over the past two Seasons, the vision of the CFC no longer aligns with our broader vision about the purpose and evolution of Optimism Governance (see more HERE.)
The next phase of governance is about optimizing the system to reduce platform risk. Allowing for governance participants to propose major changes to the governance system, especially at early stages, introduces a very high degree of platform risk.
Instead of further developing the CFC, we will work to further reduce the metagovernance surface area to a minimal set of parameters in the Operating Manual. Over time, these parameters will be transitioned onchain and a permissioned process to update them will be introduced as you can see reflected in the updated Decentralization Milestones. The decision to discontinue the CFC is about alignment with a new stage of governance maturity, and is in no way a reflection of the value of the contributions members.
As always, the Foundation will continue to solicit and incorporate input from community members, just without the formalized structure of a dedicated commission.