Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that buglist.cgi was taking quite a bit of CPU time.  I looked
>> at some of the long running instances, and they were coming from
>> searchbots.  I can't think of a good reason for this, so I have
>> committed this patch to the gcc.gnu.org robots.txt file to not let
>> searchbots search through lists of bugs.  I plan to make a similar
>> change on the sourceware.org and cygwin.com sides.  Please let me know
>> if this seems like a mistake.
>>
>> Does anybody have any experience with
>> http://code.google.com/p/bugzilla-sitemap/ ?  That might be a slightly
>> better approach.
>
> Shouldn't we keep searchbots way from bugzilla completely?  Searchbots
> can crawl the gcc-bugs mailinglist archives.

I don't see anything wrong with crawling bugzilla, though, and the
resulting links should be better.

Ian

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