[Catalog-sig] Rewrite PyPI for App Engine?

[Jesus Cea]

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On 25/06/10 11:21, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 1 - PyPI was down less than 2 days in 365 days IIRC. PyPI lacks of
> sysadmins, we need more in several timezone. A sysadmin just relaunch
> the service, like MvL or Jannis did.

We need to deploy the mirroring PEP, and the impact of PYPI central
server downtime would be far less. The only missing point in the PEP,
AFAIK, is the crypto stuff to prevent mirror missbehaviour.

> 2 - Some people in the community are frustrated with the current
> process of getting a feature in PyPI. I don't have a strong opinion in
> this but I think having the code in a DVCS would be better.
> hg.python.org would open the codebase to all python core comitters,
> and people would be able to request pulls.

+1.

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