Governance proposal: CEP review delegates

[jaimergp]

In the past we have discussed how the CEP process has a bottleneck with the votes from the Steering Council (SC). Two weeks need to be granted in practice so the quorum rules are softer and so on. We had also discussed the possibility of having a technical review team or panel, but we didn't get far with that.

In yesterday's call we came up with a compromise solution that is maybe enough to reduce the vote frictions. The principles are:

• Each Steering Council member can choose a delegate reviewer who will review the PR and cast the vote on their behalf.
• The delegate reviewer doesn't have to belong to SC, but we assume that the SC member will choose someone with the technical competence to do their job well.
• SC members can choose their delegate reviewer from the panel of people that have kindly volunteer to be delegates. Maybe adding a review to the PR makes you a suitable volunteer already. To be decided.
• A delegate reviewer can represent more than one SC member. The quorum rules apply as if the original SC members had voted.

This is a bit rough but that's the core idea. Thoughts @conda/steering-council?

[beckermr]

I am emeritus, so do ignore, but did we not get far on the technical board at the last meeting or in general?

I'd much prefer a technical board as it is a more straightforward and sensible system.