<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2015-08-17 3:55 GMT-03:00 Jos van den Oever <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jos@vandenoever.info" target="_blank">jos@vandenoever.info</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Monday 17 August 2015 07:46:44 Martin Graesslin wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> Hi community,<br>
><br>
> over the last months I observed the following:<br>
> * people not finding our git repositories<br>
<br>
</span>Searching on ixquick:<br>
'calligra git' <a href="https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Git" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Git</a><br>
'kde git' <a href="https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual</a><br>
'kwin git' <a href="https://github.com/faho/kwin-tiling" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/faho/kwin-tiling</a><br>
'plasma git' <a href="https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development</a><br>
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Searching on Google:<br>
'calligra git' <a href="https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/2</a><br>
'kde git' <a href="https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Git" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Git</a><br>
'kwin git' <a href="http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/04/kwin-moved-to-an-own-repository/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/04/kwin-moved-to-an-own-repository/</a><br>
'plasma git' -> <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma-desktop-git/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma-desktop-git/</a><br>
<br>
On google the highest link to github was in position 4. Not too bad.<br>
<br>
There was no link to <a href="https://projects.kde.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://projects.kde.org/</a> or <a href="https://quickgit.kde.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quickgit.kde.org/</a><br>
<br>
What part of the KDE infrastructures can be fixed to make the repositories<br>
easier to find?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/robots.txt">http://quickgit.kde.org/robots.txt</a> asks search engines not to index quickgit at all.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://projects.kde.org/robots.txt">http://projects.kde.org/robots.txt</a> asks search engines not to index the repository, but the project information, news, etc. should be indexable. See <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site:projects.kde.org">https://www.google.com/search?q=site:projects.kde.org</a> for stuff that does get indexed currently.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Both of these blocks were done for server performance reasons: search engines wer crawling the hell out of dynamically-generated repository history and bringing our servers to their knees.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Nicolás</div>
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