Hi Reinhard,
these overworked volunteers and underpaid apprentices do a pretty good job and deserve appreciation, not only because they do all this in
Agreed, and I have been doing this for long time.
their spare time. What they do is amazingly reliable and IMO it's not a big problem if a server is down for maintenance for a few hours.
Nobody says something about afew hours. Fail-over or redundancy is not to be expected in these suroundings, and down-time is normal. But we are going into the second week now AFAIR.
I'm glad that at least dante.de and tug.org are not maintained by so-called "professional teams". That would be disastrous.
I don't think that it would be disastrous, only more complicated to make changes. The advantage of "home-maintained" servers are that we can do changes quickly, easily, and without a lot of red-tape. That is great, I agree. But there are also advantages on the other side, it is not all black/white. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Fujitsu Research + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13