On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Lydia Pintscher <ly...@kde.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Ashish Bansal >> <bansal.ashish...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >> >> Hi Ashish, >> >>> >>> "quickgit.kde.org" contains robots.txt[0] which is disallowing search >>> engines to fetch the project repos. I just wanted to know if this is >>> intentional or not? >>> >>> If I recall correctly, mirror of kde repositories on github was created just >>> because it wasn't being indexed by the search engines. >> >> This is intentional, and is done to reduce the server load created by >> indexers such as Google on the system hosting quickgit.kde.org. >> (Generation of the pages, including the main index is substantially >> more expensive than it appears due to the disk access required by >> Git/SVN to return the needed information). > > Is there some place where search engines can easily index our source > code or are we shooting ourselves in the foot here?
We could probably make it available by publishing the source trees used by LXR / EBN. This would only have the main branches obviously rather than everything though. I haven't checked, but LXR may already make it's copy of the code accessible... > > > Cheers > Lydia Regards, Ben > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group > http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
