Maintaining SNS Proposal Ballot Records

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Hi @Snassy-icp,

Thanks for clearly describing the issue in a way that everyone can understand.

Some context:

  1. Since the beginning, the SNS framework did not guarantee that ballots would be retained forever.

  2. The change you’ve observed was proposal and adopted by the NNS about a year ago; see the Do not special case 0 voting reward rate commit here.

  3. This code had been installed onto the Sneed SNS Governance around the time proposal 126 was adopted (September 1, 2024), which also corresponds to your claim.

    May I ask, how come you’ve only noticed the change now?

  4. The above-mentioned change made it so that even SNSs that do not distribute voting rewards would ensure their proposals are ultimately processed, after which (according to the smart contract) the ballots are cleared. I’ve checked with the Governance team and can confirm that this is the intended behavior.

That being said, the team acknowledges the request to make ballots more accessible and for a longer time, which AFAIK has been voices a few times by the community already. Please note that coming up with the right solution here is not trivial, so we would have to wait until more urgent priorities that we’re currently working on are addressed before we can pick up this work.

For now, could you please clarify how the ballots data is being used by Sneed? Possibly, the problem could be mitigated by sending out more frequent requests to SNS Governance.

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