The stable repository provides a quick onboarding with a set of
community curated charts. Two problems with the community stable
repository has lead to its need to be removed.
1. The URL is hard coded to a Google Cloud bucket under Google's
control. This was setup when Helm was part of Kubernetes and
Kubernetes was a Google project. The bucket cannot be
transfered to another non-Google controlled project. And,
the bucket is not accessible in some parts of the world
(e.g., China).
2. The number of charts in the stable repository has grown
generally unmaintainable. The repository maintainers cannot
manage the number of PRs coming it cauing delays in response
or no response and PRs are automatically closed. This is
a poor experience.
The alternatice is the Helm Hub that provides a central point of
search for many Helm repositories. Different people and organizations
can maintain their own charts. A central server is not needed as
Helm is setup to be distributed.
Signed-off-by: Matt Farina <matt@mattfarina.com>