# IGovernor

Matt Stam (@mattstam)

IGovernor

The standard Governor that uses an ERC20 token for voting on proposals.

OpenZepplin IGovernor but with initialize(), since using clones + minimal-clones for cheapest possible token deployment. There is nothing Git Consensus specific about this governor. A typical use-case for governor's in the Etheruem ecosystem is to set it to the "owner of a contract, and then protect some of the contract's functions with the onlyOwner() modifier (see: https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/2.x/access-control and https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/2.x/api/ownership#Ownable). What is novel is that Git Consensus effectively makes addRelease() dynamically ownable, such that the only one calling it can be the one in the git tag message.

# Methods

# initialize

function initialize(address tokenAddr, string name, uint256 votingDelay, uint256 votingPeriod, uint256 proposalThreshold, uint256 quorumNumerator) external nonpayable

Initializes the Governor contract.

# Parameters

Name	Type	Description
tokenAddr	address	The ERC20 token that will be used for voting.
name	string	Name of the governor (e.g. "ExampleGovernor").
votingDelay	uint256	The number of blocks that must pass between a proposal being proposed and when it becomes executable (e.g. 1 = 1 block).
votingPeriod	uint256	The number of blocks that voting is open for a proposal (e.g. 100800 = 2 weeks = 12/s per block).
proposalThreshold	uint256	The minimum number of votes required for an account to create a proposal (e.g. 0 = anyone can create a proposal).
quorumNumerator	uint256	The quorumNumerator/100 to give a percentage representing minimum number of votes out of the supply required to pass a proposal (e.g. 5 = 5%).