I'm sure most of you noticed that archlinux.org was down for most of the
day yesterday. What started as a routine kernel upgrade turned into
about 10 hours of downtime.

The problem turned out to be an ACPI bug in the recent kernel. Simply
disabling it from the boot prompt was all that was required. However,
the support team at our hosting provider was a little slow getting to
it, so we were stuck waiting around for a 2-minute fix.

To make things more interesting, the recent PHP upgrade (5.0.5) has
introduced a new incompatibility with many of our PHP-based web
services, we we've been trying to fix them one-by-one as they're found.
So far so good on this front.

So this is basically an update to the community, so you all know what
happened and why. Things should be running smoothly again. Let us know
if they aren't.

On a different note, I've set up an Arch-centric development blog here:
http://www.archlinux.org/blog

I'm hoping it will be used as a place for regular Arch contributors to
post their updates. If you are a developer, a trusted user, or a regular
Joe Archer who has some pet projects the community would be interested
in, I encourage you to sign up contribute. Details on how to attain
posting privileges are here:
http://www.archlinux.org/blog/?p=4

Thanks all.


- J


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