On 2026-Feb-18, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Does anybody have any use for this site anymore? > > We've kept it in order to make old links work, I think. Beyond the original > "keep it for a few weeks/months after the git migration in case we change > our mind" - and I don't think we'll be going back to cvs :) > > The reason I ask is this system is getting hammered by AI bots these days, > and the cvsweb software is incredibly slow and fragile so it goes down very > often, and generates lots of alerts. > > Given I haven't seen any reports from actual users about it being down, I > do suspect we have very close to zero real users of it and that the only > access is bots.
Another point against spending too much effort keeping it, is that the pgsql-committers archives URLs are still broken even with the site up. If you go back to the old archives, the links go to developer.postgresql.org, not to anoncvs.postgresql.org. For example: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20050201211106.023568B9D05%40svr1.postgresql.org If you manually edit the URL and change "developer" to "anoncvs", the link works. So, I'm not sure it's terribly valuable. > Thus, the suggestion is to shut the service down completely. We will of > course keep a tarball of the cvs repository itself around (this is already > on our download site in pub/dev/archive), but would replace the host with a > hard redirect to the root of the git repository site. It would *not* track > the individual files or anything, just send the entire host to the git > server. I guess there's not all that many people interested in following those old links anymore. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "La rebeldía es la virtud original del hombre" (Arthur Schopenhauer)
