On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 04:16:59PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2026-Feb-18, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Does anybody have any use for this site anymore?
I didn't even know it existed. >> 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"... I've regularly dug through very old messages in the archives for several years and I can't recall ever needing to follow such a link. I do see old mailing list links that seem to redirect, though. >> ...and I don't think we'll be going back to cvs :) Really!? :p > 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. Huh, yeah. >> 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. +1 -- nathan
