Re: Gitiles broken?

Hi All,

Here are a few alternatives to gitiles for browsing the coreboot tree:
- https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/tree/main
- https://elixir.bootlin.com/coreboot/latest/source browse the releases.
- https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/coreboot/coreboot@main browse the github repo through sourcegraph

We could re-enable gitiles at any time but we could suffer gerrit outages because of gitiles at any time as well. Right now we're choosing to wait until we move gerrit to a new server where coreboot has more control and can implement IP address blocking without affecting other websites.

Note that Gitiles being taken down was also addressed in the last leadership meeting. The notes can be found in the meeting minutes document, and also went out to the mailing list:
```
### [Martin] Gtiles is currently down  * FelixS added some firewallish rules to the web server to block some bots. Still not veryefficient - each Bot needs to be blocked individually.    * We don’t get IP addresses of requests.  * Daniel: Search engines also index GitHub on which we have mirrored out repos, so when it’s aboutcode visibility/discoverability, we can block crawlers completely to lower the impact on our owninfra. People can use the GitHub viewer and Gitiles alike, giving just a different view on the samedata.
```
Martin
Mar 19, 2024, 17:19 by [email protected]:

> Hi Julius,
>
> On 2024-03-19 16:48, Julius Werner via coreboot wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that coreboot's Gitiles has broken somehow? When I click the
>> little SHA next to "Patchset X" on a commit, I'm just getting
>> redirected to that commit again. When I go to BROWSE > Repositories >
>> coreboot > Branches and click "main", nothing happens. When I directly
>> go to https://review.coreboot.org/plugins/gitiles/coreboot, it says
>> "Not Found".
>>
>
> It was intentionally disabled earlier this month due to issues caused by web crawlers. Refer to https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/I33ZI7VAA2HGWJKZKPMMA2X74EHF3VX3/ for the announcement and https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/V776346HK2TAVPZF66FLAJGZXJSDUZ7U/ for some discusson on the topic during the 2023-03-06 leadership meeting.
>
> Perhaps it would be worth setting up a redirect to the announcement or anything else that would give people an indication about what is going on.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
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