On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:34:16AM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > Oh, I don't doubt that. My point was that it makes the D language > project look like a small-scale open source project relying on > volunteers (in this case Sonke) being generous with time and > resources. What manager is going to trust a project like that with a > major project? It seems unlikely that this would not be considered a > major issue.
This looks like something the D Foundation ought to fund. Buy one of the many VPS's out there to be used as the "official", Foundation-backed dub server, preferably with a hosting provider that has multiple redundant network connections and automatic backup service. Depending on availability of funds, add a hot failover server as backup in case things go wrong with the primary server. This ought to alleviate any concerns about downtime. The current volunteer-provided servers can still act as mirrors for extra availability. If a volunteer-driven opensource project like Debian can have worldwide multiple redundant FTP mirrors that almost guarantees 100% uptime, why can't we? T -- INTEL = Only half of "intelligence".
