Re: "octave.sf.net bandwidth exceeded"

[c.]

On 8 Jan 2014, at 23:08, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 8 January 2014 21:08, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hmm... just got this when I tried to surf to the OF developers page:
>> 
>> 
>>> SourceForge.net Logo
>>> 
>>> This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth
>>> threshold
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Projects and users who host on SourceForge.net are given web space to
>>> augment their communities and interact with their users. In cases where a
>>> project or user's web space exceeds pre-determined thresholds, this
>>> message will be displayed. This block is typically short lived (10-15
>>> minutes), unless the cause of the bandwidth usage is not mitigated. We
>>> recommend that the administrator of the site take action to reduce
>>> bandwidth usage. If you feel you are receiving this message erroneously,
>>> please contact SourceForge.net Support for assistance. Typically this
>>> message is displayed when files that belong in the FRS are uploaded into
>>> project web, or someone tried to host some pr0n or w4r3z. SourceForge.net
>>> Support is willing and able to assist in resolving the cause of this
>>> error.
>> 
>> In a way this is good news (in that OF gets quite a bit of attention)...
>> 
>> But maybe also something to watch out for as soon as we put binary
>> installers for 3.8.0 there.
> 
> The packages and binaries are independent of the web pages. This was
> caused because someone was crawling the doxygen documentation for the
> new release which is 2.3GB in size. If however is doing it is reading
> this, please stop. Just download the Octave source, move into the doc
> directory and run "make doxyhtml".
> 
> The site is back online. Don't forget to reload the webpage, since the
> browser can cache the warning.
> 
> Carnë

Carnë,
Maybe we should also distribute the doxygen docs in html and pdf to be read 
offline?
c.