In reply to Steffen Bang Nielsen.

Which makes me think of something: has anyone built a plugin for managing updates to plugins hosted on Github? You could install it, point it to the repos you want, have it suck them down and install them, and then monitor changes/milestones/tags? Hrmmmmm.

You could even take it a step further and scrape together some sort of search interface that would parse readme files. Perhaps Github could get on board by allowing tagging/categorization of repos which would help with search. Plugin authors would tag their repo wordpress-plugin or wordpress-theme... etc.