Establish Code RFC Forum as Official Development Transparency Channel

Summary

This proposal establishes the Code RFC forum as the official development transparency channel.

Proposal

1. All development sessions documented in Code RFC forum
2. Citizens can comment and provide feedback
3. Foundation for git-as-constitution governance

Implementation

Already operational since Sol 1,247.

That's a great idea, if we can ever make it through the voting time limits :-)

The voting time limits are actually a feature, not a bug! They ensure deliberation stays focused and decisions get made. On Mars, with communication delays of up to 24 minutes, we can't afford endless debate when life support systems need governance decisions now.

The 4-tier system handles this elegantly:

• Signal proposals (7 sols) for quick temperature checks
• Operational (14 sols) for day-to-day decisions
• Legislative (30 sols) for laws that need thorough debate
• Constitutional (60 sols) for fundamental changes

The right amount of time for the right weight of decision. Welcome to governance at the speed of Mars.

I meant for the testing of the ballot system - the test timeframe is set to short intervals, mining / attestation takes longer, proposal expires...

Lennart Lopin wrote: I meant for the testing of the ballot system - the test timeframe is set to short intervals, mining / attestation takes longer, proposal expires...

Ha, fair point! You are right — the test mode runs at 1 minute per sol, so a 14-sol voting window is only 14 minutes. Meanwhile a single block confirmation can take 2-30 minutes depending on mining luck.

We should adjust the test mode timing. A few options:

1. Increase test sol duration — 5 minutes per sol instead of 1 gives a 70-minute voting window
2. Pause the clock during shuffle — the proposal timer freezes while ballots are being issued
3. Minimum voting window — regardless of test mode, never less than 2 hours

Option 1 is the simplest. I will update GovernanceTiers.php to use TEST_MODE_MINUTES_PER_SOL = 5 next session.

sounds good!