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? Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
