Hello everyone,
our hosting provider Hetzner has just informed us that there will be a
scheduled downtime window on the 9th July 2025 starting on 10:00 GMT+2
until 14:00 GMT+2 [to replace the mainboard of our Gitlab server][0].
During this time period the service will be offline for up to 40 minutes
+ however long it takes us to fix potentially resulting issues with the
booloader, network configuration and so on.
This will effect the following services/components of our distribution
ecosystem:
- Packaging: No packages can be updated during the downtime (as the
source repositories for it will be offline)
- Project Maintainers: The other projects (pacman, aurweb, buildbtw,
signstar, mirrors repo etc.) will be unavailable
- Bugtracker: No bugs can be reported during this timeframe
- Static sites as served via Gitlab Pages (Arch Linux WKD, project pages
etc.) will not be available
We can not really circumvent the downtime and think it's an acceptable
timeframe to not warrant any further action from us as a team.
Let us know if you have any questions or additions to the above!
Cheers,
Christian for the DevOps Team
[0]: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-information/mainboa…