That seems... odd. Looking at the SF repo, I see a few commits per week, last one on 2018-09-01 17:08:16 - so if he sees no changes, where is he looking at?
(I actually don't see the intermediate discussion as rubbish or useless - though it is very much off-topic and can well be moved - I have a feeling it has moved somewhere which is not a cycle and maybe something good comes from that in the future. It seems to me that some misunderstandings could be cleared - and doing that isn't crazy as far as I'm concerned, as tedious as it may be to read)