CC Membership / Threshold values need to be shown to users

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@Ryun1 proposed this question on Slack:
"What happens if all cc members expire? does the system go into a state of no-confidence OR does the system act as if there is no CC?"

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No, it is not a state of no confidence, because that would imply different thresholds would be used.As soon as number of active CC members is below the min size nothing that requires a CC vote can be passed.

So, the fact that it is zero CC it doesn't matter, what matters is that it is below the committeeMinSize protocol parameter. If that parameter happens to be zero and the threshold is zero, then CC votes are n o longer relevant for anything, i.e. that would be a way to disable CC altogether.

This is a very good question.Setting the CC threshold to zero (although it's possible) would effectively violate the constitution, as it was built to have a CC.If this (no committee) was desired, then the way to go about it would be to amend the Constitution itself.

These points are moot, as it's extremely unlikely they would occur. But Ryan’s original question is valid: The system will grind to a halt if the number of members went below the threshold.Should we do something?

I would say yes. What to do? That's up for discussion. As we can alter GovTool, in the very least we should let users know that if they want to propose any G-Actions, their actions will not proceed until there are enough CC members in place.

This implies that it may be an essential or a very useful future feature in GovTool to show the status of the CC, and whatever other info would impact anyone wanting to participate in Governance.Why? Because it's not possible now in GovTool to see the number of active CC members, and as I've said, if they drop below the threshold, Governance is Paused, and users need to know about that in all cases.