On 2025-Sep-22, Tom Lane wrote:
> My first thought about scheduling was "best not in the middle of the
> 18.0 release cycle". However, I don't know of any actual connection
> between gitweb/cgit and the release-making tasks. My second thought
> was "the point here is to cut server load, and maybe we need that to
> happen before the anticipated traffic spike on Thursday". There
> might not be any connection there either, but if there is, agreed
> to get it done sooner not later.
I think the traffic overloads are mostly caused by LLM scrapers, which
as far as I know does not correlate with spikes caused by human behavior
or even those caused by mirroring traffic during a new release or such.
I would rather wait until next week, just in case something breaks.
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