Re: gitweb broken?
Project / Subsystem
gcc / gcc
Date
2026-08-16
Proposer
Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Lowering proof-of-work difficulty may reduce effectiveness against sophisticated botnets.
- • Switching challenge types (meta-refresh to JavaScript) might affect users with older browsers or specific accessibility needs.
All attributes
- project
- gcc
- subsystem
- gcc
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- 20260816212922.GA4558@gnu.wildebeest.org
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- Re: gitweb broken?
- headline
- gitweb broken?
- tldr
- Sourceware has lowered the difficulty for its Anubis proof-of-work system to address performance issues and slow commit browsing.
- proposer
- Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Lowering proof-of-work difficulty may reduce effectiveness against sophisticated botnets.
- • Switching challenge types (meta-refresh to JavaScript) might affect users with older browsers or specific accessibility needs.
- series_id
- —
- series_role
- standalone
- series_parts
- []
- tags
-
- • performance
- • infrastructure
- • security
- • DoS
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
Re: gitweb broken?
Mark Wielaard reports that Sourceware has reduced the difficulty of the Anubis proof-of-work system from 5 to 4, aiming to improve performance for users experiencing slow commit browsing. They also switched the wiki and Bugzilla from meta-refresh to JavaScript challenges to combat scraper attacks.