[PHP] Re: Lists are back up

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

> More seriously ...
>
> Can we get a report on what happened?
>
> If this happens in the future, is there some way of putting an alternative
> in place quickly? For example, could phpbuilder take up the slack?
>
> Could this outage lend fuel to the "Who do you sue?" and "Open Source is
> unreliable" schools. Having said that, I recognize that PHP-based sites
> around the world kept running, as did php.net itself.

The explanation is simple and has been on the php.net web site for a
while.

Having an alternative place to move the lists to is something we can look
at, but it isn't overly simple to do, and I personally don't consider the
mailing lists mission critical.  The web site and cvs server are more
critical.

-Rasmus