> On 21 Jun 2022, at 15:01, Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21/06/2022 14:48, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Last week we had a bit of an emergency when a web crawler started >> indexing all our mercurial repositories on xenbits, as caused the load >> on xenbits to go beyond what it can handle. >> >> As a temporary solution we decided to remove access to mercurial >> repositories, but the contents there are AFAIK only for historical >> repositories, so we might consider completely removing access to >> mercurial repositories. This would however require migrating any >> repository we care about to git. >> >> I would like an opinion from committers as well as the broad community >> whether shutting down mercurial repositories and migrating whatever we >> care about is appropriate. Otherwise we will need to implement some >> throttling to mercurial accesses in order to avoid overloading >> xenbits. > > IIRC, we'd mostly moved off hg onto git before moving to the Linux > Foundation, where git became mandatory. Hg hasn't been the primary dev > tool for ages, and git has only got more ubiquitous in the meantime. > > I'd suggest keeping hgweb disabled for now and see if anyone complains.
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