On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:08 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Anthony Sorace<anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> a few things:
>
> 1) note that when the web site is down, sources may still be up
> (someone in IRC made this mistake). i run an automated availability
> check of sources every 10 minutes and didn't see an outage.
>
> 2) Ethan, i'm not sure if you realize it or not, but your comment is
> entirely unhelpful and serves only to foster animosity all around.
> please stop.

Seriously, we're lucky to have sources /at all/. Instead of
complaining, maybe the most concerned people should volunteer their
time to help maintain sources, or put up mirrors of their own.

I for one am quite grateful for the sources machine.

My guess is if we didn't have it, we'd have to create a grid based "contrib", and we'd probably have to have some kind of 9grid based registry to find everyone's contributions.