F-Droid maintainers are solely a volunteer effort. The CI helps a lot. The biggest slowdown in the chain is the manual offline signing step. You can see here t

F-Droid maintainers are solely a volunteer effort. The CI helps a lot. The biggest slowdown in the chain is the manual offline signing step. You can see here the history https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commits/master/metadata/im.vector.app.yml https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commits/master/metada... You can donate to support them here https://opencollective.com/f-droid https://opencollective.com/f-droid or here https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data