As someone about to take a decision through the Technical Decision Making Process, I have a few clarifying questions:
- Do forum members only weigh in on decisions relevant to their team? Will there be a participant from the anti-harassment team for every decision, who only sometimes says yay or nay to the three questions?
- Step three says "Once the Decision Statement Overview is confirmed with the Technical Decision Forum...." What does that confirmation look like? Is it just that a week has passed since the phab ticket was added to the inbox? If there is disagreement on one of the three questions, does the team who brought the decision to the forum make the final call? What if the Decision Statement Overview does not include a stakeholder who may be substantially affected by the team's decision? (And who decides what "substantially affected" is?)
- Who are the CTO and CPO delegates for executive review? Who are the co-chairs?
- If a decision is flagged for executive review, and executive review finds it unacceptable, I could see the subsequent steps becoming unclear and lengthy. Is there a clear fallback when execs nix a decision? (I understand this might be difficult do to the variety of types and levels of nixing.)
Thanks for putting together this process, and for shepherding us through it.