Thanks @yiannisbot and @armog for clarifying - that’s very helpful.
So, as we understand it, this is an existing and valued data partnership, and this proposal is a question of extending that partnership with additional monitoring tools and analytics.
Perhaps we can also rely on an assumption that this is not an expense that Gnosis Ltd has budgeted for or plans to cover, so presumably isn’t a necessary component to our existing data and network contributors, hence why it’s a question for the DAO. Please do correct if this is wrong.
We can then turn to assess value for money. Our initial sense is that the subject of this proposal’s milestones are quite granular and specific monitoring and analytics, which will be of most value to a smaller number of users focused on network health, so namely (as the proposal says) validators, client teams, infrastructure providers and core protocol developer. It may be useful if some more feedback or testimonials from more potential users could be gathered to corroborate the proposal’s conclusion that this would benefit the community at large. We count @armog’s comments as one example:
Beyond that, we do approve of the milestone structure of this proposal, which would allow for changes or even cancellation if issues arise along the way. We also think the total cost does not seem totally unreasonable, though we find it difficult to gauge the amount of work involved.
We would however appreciate some clarification as to whether the additional tools and metrics introduced by this work would be subject to any future maintenance costs (whether ongoing for things like hosting or one-off costs for updates). We wouldn’t want to get 3 months down the line with all the work complete to then find a surprise proposal for a significant amount of necessary maintenance costs.
Thank you again