# JBP-215 - Governance Process - Amendment 5
 
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Title: Governance Process - Amendment 5
Author: filipv
Date: 2022-06-12
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## Thesis

Ratify updates to Juicebox DAO’s Governance Process.

Updates: [https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdmtcMzPYzfPESPz4hJbqFxsPBqkFKqQcDR7wEgk7AKzt](https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdmtcMzPYzfPESPz4hJbqFxsPBqkFKqQcDR7wEgk7AKzt)

Diff: [https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVhRNgcmRFCjabsKEcjkBnYAL9uPXktBoDdJPbiAYC6cM](https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVhRNgcmRFCjabsKEcjkBnYAL9uPXktBoDdJPbiAYC6cM)

## Abstract

- Remove temperature check freeze for translations.

- Snapshot quorum from 15 total voters → 80,000,000 affirmative JBX

- Removed emergency governance processes

- Proposals must clearly specify multisig actions to be deemed executable.

- Improved clarity, consistency, and specificity.

## Motivation

Currently:

- Temperature checks currently feel rushed, especially due to the freeze for translations.

- The Snapshot quorum is irrelevant—no proposal has ever failed due to it. The governance process can let through proposals that the community is not truly enthusiastic about.

- Emergency governance processes are a major outstanding avenue for abuse, and have not been utilized.

- Unclear proposals often lead to confusion and additional work on the multisig’s part.

- The Juicebox DAO Governance Process has inconsistencies and unclear language.

## Risks

- Without a translation buffer, authors could change their proposals just before they go to offchain voting, bypassing the temperature check stage.

- The DAO may miss out on executing controversial but valuable proposals.

- An unforseen event could arise in which emergency governance would be useful.

- Proposals may be more burdensome to write, especially for newcomers.

- Consistency updates could lead to confusion for those used to something else (e.g. Juicebox DAO → JuiceboxDAO).

## Specification

- Ratify this governance process: [https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdmtcMzPYzfPESPz4hJbqFxsPBqkFKqQcDR7wEgk7AKzt](https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdmtcMzPYzfPESPz4hJbqFxsPBqkFKqQcDR7wEgk7AKzt)

- Update governance process at [https://info.juicebox.money/resources/juicebox-dao/governance-process](https://info.juicebox.money/resources/juicebox-dao/governance-process)

- Update other documentation accordingly.

## Rationale

- Translators are currently writing proposal summaries, and do not need a full 24 hours to make a translation. There is a possibility of leveraging DeepL’s API to roughly translate proposals automatically.

- A JBX quorum is less susceptible to manipulation. The quorum only measuring affirmative votes prevents the possibility of a proposal passing quorum because you voted no.

- It is difficult to envision a scenario where emergency governance could address a major existential issue, especially given the protocol-level limits on reconfigurations.

- Multisig work and bookkeeping could be simplified with improved proposal specificity.

- Ambiguities lead to confusion and disagreement, especially for newcomers.

## Timeline

The updated governance process should take effect during the first temperature check after this proposal’s passing on Snapshot.

## Copyright Disclaimer

Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).