For context this is actually the round 2 of the Namada Builders funding, the round 1 was here ( Namada Builder Allocations Round 1 - 2.05m NAM - #29 ) and it was 2M NAM to rewards just some Namada explorers. Now this second round is rewarding the Namada UI, and infra like masp indexers, rpc, other indexers, etc., with rewards for relayers in a future round 3. My key criticism with this round 2 proposal apart from the amounts of NAM decided is not including several top infra providers including us and this has to be fixed obviously. You should announce on discord and tag all validators to review the luminara repo and check if all their infra and services are included there, and then review but not before. We had added all our testnet and mainnet relayers already to that repo but we hadn’t included other infra there and other validators were in the same situation, so you should tag and ask validators on discord to review and add all their infra to that repo and after that do the excel review and selection to be fair and accurate, not funding some key builders just because some of their services were not yet included in some repo would be the fastest way to lose some of the best builders left in Namada
In addition, another two suggestions:
-Consider also snapshots around the period april-june for example, many were providing services and infra around that time and had to shut down their services due to costs and no compensation after the token launch, also consider the time period for running the infra, for example some maybe run infra for many months and had to shut it down in july, and some opportunistic launched infra a few days ago and were considered for the snapshot the 11th september, is that fair?
-As pretoro said, scope should broaden a bit and also reward some important and key community members