On 09.01.2015 19:30, webmasterlocalmsp@gmail.com wrote:
1) If i need to take the site down for maintenance, is there a best practice for notification / monitoring of the systems that manage / test the mirrors? Talking routine, 1-4 hour maintenance type event.
Just take it down. I check our monitoring every couple of days so chances are I won't do that at the exact time you do your maintenance. If I do I might check how long it is down, but worst case you get a short mail from me. For longer downtime it's best to send a mail to this list. pacman will fall back to other mirrors if the users have more than one listed in their mirrorlist so that's not too bad.
2) When I want to add an additional service such as https, rsync - who do I let know so the mirrors can be updated?
Create a bugreport on our tracker.