On 2025-10-02 20:16, Dora Scilipoti wrote:
Hello,there are so many issues going on with Savannah and the websites that I'm not sure it's worth reporting. In any case, FWIW: Viewing the diffs through the web interface doesn't seem to have been working for some time now. For example: https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/www/philosophy/words-to- avoid.es.html?r1=1.192&r2=1.193 ========== An Exception Has Occurred Diff generation is disabled HTTP Response Status 403 Forbidden ==========
Bob disabled viewvc's diff viewing feature a while ago. It was attracting various "AI" bots, and the very old, unupgradable VM (vcs1) hosting the cvs repo was unhappy. (If we don't count the continuing DDoS attacks). savannah hackers spend most efforts on git rather than cvs, hg, svn, etc. People mostly complained about git.
The scraping and attacks have been going on since August 2024 pretty much non-stop. savannah hackers are exhausted. sysadmins are more exhausted. And that's not counting our various life events (like all humans have) that take away time and energy from working on savannah. I don't see an end of those attacks. There has been some discussion about stopping all web servers and announce a very long down time to give ourselves time to regroup and strengthen our defenses, because all these attacks are against web servers. Obviously users will be unhappy, it was only a discussion.
The conclusion: as long as the current bots and DDoS situation continues, it may be hard to do anything about it. But I don't have the root permission to change anything anyway. So...please use "cvs diff" on the command line for now. Thanks.
Has it really been disabled? If so, can it possibly be re-enabled? Thanks!
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