Hi all,

I noticed that a Google search for "subversion 1.15" [1] currently shows the
staging copy of the release notes as the first result, at least for me:

  https://subversion-staging.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.15.html

It looks like our infra configuration for the staging subdomain does not
prevent search engines from indexing it.  This is a problem for several
reasons:

- Users may land on staging pages, which can be unfinished or out of
  sync with the main site.

- Search engines may incorrectly treat the pages on the main site as
  duplicates of the staging ones.

Could someone please ask infra to look into this?  One option could be to add
a "X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow" header for everything on the staging
subdomain.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=subversion+1.15


Thanks,
Evgeny Kotkov

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