Mirror maintenance windows, related communication, order of checks (Was: Re: pl1.php.net Disabled)

Am 30.04.2015 17:40 schrieb "Hannes Magnusson" <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>: > > Mirrors that are frequently randomly unavailable are very frustrating for users. > If our mirror check system observes down time and sends you a > notification -- imagine the annoyance from a real user not being able > to reach php.net. I'm pretty sure that a lot of the mirrors run hosted somewhere, and will be affected by hosting and network provider maintenance windows, as was the case on our at2.php.net mirror (and as it happens occasionally they had a problem and the downtime was a bit extended). These things usually happen in the middle of the night - I don't think many Austrian PHP developers noticed it Tuesday between 03:00am and 05:00 am. > Please make sure the mirror is fully functioning at all times and let > us know about any planned maintenence so we can temporary disable the > mirror. Okay, will start to send mail when I get prenotification of planned downtime at our providers. Would you also like to be prenotified when I update PHP or the OS/kernel on the boxes, which when it happens, sometimes takes 30 seconds for a reboot or rollback in case of problems? So far during the last few years, I simply relied on the automation to spot somewhat prolongued (unplanned) episodes, and for short upgrades including reboots I just did it. > You are right that the manual alias check is the first one to run, so > any outage is likely to be caught by that check. Might be good to first do a general reachability check, so that the notification mail text is more clear about the cause. best regards Patrick