Dear GHC Devs,
As you certainly noticed, the gitlab reliability started going again ca.
2 weeks ago. Already enacted changes improved the situations slightly
(e.g. mitigated Anubis bypass) but not enough to make a smooth
contributing experience possible.
I am writing this mail to inform you about the following:
1. We will probably set most projects to `Internal`. This means that all
projects where it's not important that they're publicly visible (like
the main ghc/ghc repo) will be set to Internal, meaning they're only
visible to logged in users. This will probably also affect your forks of
GHC.
2. There will be a bigger gitlab outage this weekend Sat, 18:00 CEST
(12:00 ET). We will give another go at upgrading our gitlab since that
will allow us to do some prioritization of logged in users' traffic and
this has been on our backlog for longer anyway. The downtime will be
significant (multiple hours). During that time, you can change your
upstream URL to github. The same is true for .gitmodules.
3. We will probably (if the infra team agrees) try out more aggressive
defenses against bots since Anubis seems to not have the lasting effect
we'd hoped.
I am truly sorry this causes so much inconvenience for you and I hope we
will be back to a usable state after the weekend.
Best
Magnus
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