portsnap not updating

[Ronald Klop]

Hello,

Probably the wrong mailinglist.
But portsnap is not updating since a few days while there are commits on  
the ports tree. [1]

After some searching I found I am not the only one. Apparently there is  
maintenance being done on the servers.
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg45395.html

I read a lot of blogs/RSS/etc. Nowhere any signs of maintenance on the  
servers. What is wrong with announcing these things on for example  
www.freebsd.org?

NB: I know it is voluntary work, thanks for doing it.

Regards,
Ronald.

[1]
[root at sjakie ~]# time update_portstree.sh
Looking up eu.portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
No updates needed.
Ports tree is already up to date.
         ===>>> There are no new versions available
===>>> 968 total installed ports
Thu Nov 15 13:23:57 CET 2012

[root at sjakie ~]# ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX-*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26830552 Nov 12 20:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26714819 Nov 12 20:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26696014 Nov 12 20:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9