@LongForWisdom this has been there since inception of the GMC (2022-09-18, RPIP-15). Keep in mind that GMC positions are volunteer positions staffed by active community members – it’s a pretty tough pill to go from volunteer to “paid negative money because you can’t apply for grants”.
@knoshua thanks for getting real world numbers. I find them convincing, and now think we should leave it as is. Now that we have 9 members, and especially on the monthly schedule, it seems easy enough to avoid having a single month contain new grants for more than 4 GMC members.
New stance: I still don’t think it’s super critical, but it seems there’s very low cost to having it there and it prevents any questions. So slight win to “as is” and that’s also easier 