Here are my comments on the proposed amendments:
This fixes an error I made when drafting the rules, as the Funding Window should be every three months.
This alleviates any time pressure associated with completing an offchain vote AND starting an onchain vote within 15 days.
A lead steward is responsible for the overall management of the WG to which they are elected. It is the responsibility of the lead steward to maintain communications within the WG, and on behalf of the WG in the governance forum. Reflecting on the First Term of 2022, WGs with active lead stewards, including the Community WG (coltron.eth), the Ecosystem WG (slobo.eth), and the PGs WG (avsa.eth) benefit from having a single steward that is empowered to make decisions on behalf of the stewards of their respective WG. The lead steward will be selected by the current WGs stewards in each respective WG.
Reflecting on the involvement, or lack thereof, of stewards across WGs leads me to believe the best path forward for the Second Term of 2022 is to reduce the number of stewards in each WG to three. With fewer stewards, each steward is likely to feel a great sense of responsibility for the role. In conjunction with formalizing the appointment of a Lead Steward for each WG, this should improve the efficiency and productivity of WGs.
TNL will no longer appoint team members as stewards. TNL team members can participate in steward elections if they want to be a steward. This also means that any number of TNL team members can be WG stewards, so long as they are elected in a DAO-wide vote in the steward elections.
If the number of stewards in each WG is taken down to three, then removal of a steward requires a majority of elected stewards to vote in favor of removal. Instead of the decision to remove a steward being an internal WG decision, it becomes a vote amongst all elected WG stewards.