I should add that there is work in progress to advertise the repos directly in HaikuDepot (for the ones which are already listed on the HaikuDepot server website).
On the Haiku developer side (well or at least from my point of view):
- On one side, managing the haikuports repo ourselves is more work than we can afford, and people who can contribute to Haiku shouldn’t spend most of their time managing that, so, having other repos taking care of that is great.
- On the other side, leaving “random” people in control of the repos sounds sometimes a bit worrying. We need to get used to that loss of control and rely on the reviews/rating on the HaikuDepot app to let people know which packages are good.