I'm not quite sure if I'm over reading into this, but this comes across as a snarky response as if I've said "boo, fdroid sucks and owes me a free app store!".

Appologies if I came across like that, here's what I'm trying to convey:

- Fdroid is important

- This sounds like a problem, not necessarily one that's any fault of fdroid

- Does anyone know of a plan to fix the issue?

For what it's worth, I do donate on a monthly basis to fdroid through liberapay, but I don't think that's really relevant here?

This has now become a major issue for F-Droid, as well as for FOSS app developers. People are starting to complain about devs because they haven't been able to release the new version for their apps (at least it doesn't show up on F-Droid) as promised

Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE?

Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars.

A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly.

Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform.

Where are the physical servers?

Did and doing regularly.