Disclaimer : I was part of the Aave companies in the past, during the development of Aave v3, but this is my opinion as a community member.
I support this proposal as in, “the aave companies did tremendous work and should be paid for that”.
That said I would wish for more transparency to set a better example for upcoming retroactive funding requests. If the proposal would have asked for 10M or 20M I would expect the answers in the topic to be pretty much the same as there’s no way to even vaguely estimate if it’s “fair compensation”. I think it is and not saying it isn’t just that is not very transparent from the outside.
Information which I think could be disclosed without exposing company secrets imo would be:
- rough time of development (not necessarily hours, but i guess “months of active development” should be an information given)
- ppl involved (there’s a graphic with the “aave pod”, but there could be more transparency on the number of ppl involved as in - is it 15M for 13ppl or 100ppl over 3month or 2years)
tl;dr;
I support the proposal, but would wish for as much transparency as possible to raise the bar for any other retroactive proposal in the future.