No, we don't have a system for local announcements. It's not a bad idea
to set one up though. I'd one to have some sort of approval mechanism
though so that we had some control over what messages people put up on
their local mirrors. Also, by running it through a central system like
that we could push it out to a number of mirrors according to the region
the announcement might cover.
For now, if you get things up and running, we will just put an
announcement on *.php.net so everyone everywhere sees it.
Yep. I would also vote for a global annoucement for now. But local ones may be needed in the future, as local PHP life exapands. But greater control for that is inevitable. IMHO we would not like to make the PHP site a portal for PHP information. So I won't vote for giving 'too much control' for mirror maintainers.
BTW if we provide the ability of some local news, then that may encourage more mirrors to pop up, given that some limited local content would be available that way officialy.
Goba