[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5106: About 429 Problems in China. We want to solve it by ourselves.

[Making WordPress.org]

#5106: About 429 Problems in China. We want to solve it by ourselves.
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 Reporter:  smallsaltedfish  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  highest omg bbq  |   Milestone:
Component:  API              |  Resolution:  reported-upstream
 Keywords:                   |
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Changes (by dd32):

 * keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch needs-patch =>
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => reported-upstream


Comment:

 Several Chinese network sources are rate-limited on certain services due
 to a high level of abuse and non-legitimate traffic coming from those
 sources.

 We won't be providing any form of whitelisting or an official way to
 replicate WordPress.org through a chinese proxy.
 WordPress is of course open-source software, so you are free to host
 mirrors of the code, documentation, and provide built packages of it.

 Some relevant threads
  - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/china-cannot-access-wordpress-org/
  - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-chinese-user-429-too-many-
 requests-unfair/

 As the Meta team isn't responsible for the blocking, I'm going to pass
 this onto our Systems team - https://make.wordpress.org/systems/2020/03/21
 /re-evaluate-the-chinese-rate-limiting/

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