Yeah, let's announce to the world REALLY LOUD that now is the time for blackhats to either hack into our servers or bribe some our developers to give them source code.
Genius!
In other words, the issue is that these guys are too stupid to make the git repository used in the build infrastructure be configurable (so they could build packages from a separate private one...), and also too stupid to at least lie claiming the servers went down instead of announcing their stupidity.
Hopefully the database is written by a different set of people than the ones doing system administration.