Re: Killing off anoncvs.postgresql.org

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.

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