[Catalog-sig] SourceForge mirroring

[Richard Jones]

On 26/08/2009, at 10:10 AM, Mark Ramm-christensen wrote:
>   And now that big sections of SourceForge run on python, using
> packages from pypi, we've got a vested interest in making sure that
> there is a high availability global mirror network for pypi packages.

I'm all for high availability of PyPI. Fortunately the current hosting  
runs pretty reliably, but we've already realised that some people are  
expecting it to be available 100%. This can really only be achieved  
through mirroring. Of course there's other benefits to mirroring (as  
someone living on "the wrong side of the Pacific" I can vouch for the  
coolness of having local Sourceforge mirroring).

There's a bunch of PyPI mirroring efforts already; "pypi mirror" in  
Google shows up some.


      Richard