Based on existing governance proposals, someone stepping down as a steward would also be offboarded from VitaCore. There isn’t specific governance on whether that person can still be a multisig signer, but the list of multisig signers is public and kept up to date here: VDP-0 VitaDAO Multisig Proposal - #26 by alexdobrin
The process is that the current multisig signers vote on adding or removing another signer based on whether they sign that transaction or not.
In practice, it depends on the reason someone is offboarded and the core contributors take a pragmatic decision together by majority vote but ideally in consent.
For instance, if a steward isn’t trusted anymore, the core contributors would probably agree to remove them from VitaCore and the multisig too.
Another example for this pragmatic decision making would be @schmackofant who stepped up to be an unofficial interim steward for tech until the elections on Aug 1. Even though he isn’t a steward yet, he was invited to vitacore because the core contributors agreed that he’s extremely valuable to the DAO and should be in VitaCore. Similarly with @catthu.
So a steward stepping down could still be in VitaCore as an advisor of the reason they stepped down was not related to performance or trust, but a lack of time or so.
Curious to hear what you and others think.
Do we need more specific governance and defined processes for the examples above? Or does it make sense to let the core contributors vote on a case by case basis in a more pragmatic manner?