🖧 Infrastructure reliability & communication when things break

A project will certainly face infrastructure related issues like cloudflare outage this week, everyone knows, but if expectations are not managed properly, this leaves user community with bad taste.

Being transparent about downtime and providing timely updates when things are down goes long way in managing expectations.

Have a status page, a prominent one, that has link for git, downloads, autobuilder, etc.

Why this matters for growth

For many users, project could be critical infra. If they perceive infra as fragile or opaquely managed, they will:

Build their own forks and mirrors,

or avoid contributing back because they feel the upstream is brittle.

Improvements

Whenever there’s a major outage, show a banner on:

the main site,

docs site,

and maybe the GitHub mirror README.

Promote official instructions for setting up local mirrors