I’m still maintaining the main clrfund repo and therefore I’m deciding what PRs to merge. There are simply no other contributors who know the project well enough to make informed decisions on PRs. In addition, the PR in question is not an objective improvement, it’s just a change to the tooling and its value depends on the preferences of a particular developer. I think people with no history of previous contributions don’t have a say in this matter.
ETH2 team (who are currently doing the most active development on clr.fund)
That’s not true. EF team is working on a fork, which diverged significantly from the original clrfund codebase. As far as I know they completely redesigned the UI. I did not participate in that redesign nor did I review any changes they made to their fork. So it’s a separate project by now.
There is some talk about merging everything back into clrfund-main, but I don’t see a way to do that unless they somehow split their changes into smaller reviewable parts. Also, I don’t think their UI is better than the reference clrfund UI (although they implemented some good ideas).