Pause governance

[JakeHartnell]

As a DAO, we would like to vote to pause governance for a certain period of time. During this frozen period no proposals can be made or executed, and voting is disabled.

Talking with @ben2x4 made me realize that this a simple and very important feature... and useful in a number of cases.

[elsehow]

honest question: when might a DAO need to do this?

[JakeHartnell]

honest question: when might a DAO need to do this?

Still thinking about this... not 100% sure it's needed. Need more real world testing...

• When it launches. For example, if a DAO launches with a certain amount of DAO tokens in it's treasury. A user or small group of users could perhaps race to stake their tokens and pass a proposal.

• Moving the DAO. For whatever reason, a DAO may want to transfer it's operations to another DAO contract. People would need to unstake their DAO tokens for the old contract, and restake with the new. As not many people would have staked with the new DAO, it could be in a temporary vulnerable state.

• Taking a break. DAOs operate 24/7, but humans don't communities may wish to simply take a collective break or holiday.

[elsehow]

These are all perfectly reasonable. The "race" (kind of like a timing attack on governance) seems especially important. Can you imagine if delays with an IBC relayer cause an important proposal to pass/fail?