[Distutils] outdated PyPI mirrors

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On 2013-04-11 12:44:54 +0000, Andreas Jung said:

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> According to
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> http://www.pypi-mirrors.org/
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> 3 out of 8 PyPI mirror are out of date or not available.
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> This is not good for the PyPI reputation.
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> Of course mirror can have problems for a while but the
> maintainers should feel in charge of maintaining
> and checking their mirrors regularly.
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> I propose that an obvious unmaintained mirror should be removed
> (temporarily) if it has not been updated after N days. Right now
> N = 50 and N = 69 which is hardly acceptable.

I started trying to track down the owners this morning. I managed to 
send email to 3 of them based on their I network contacts.  Google 
responded that they don't want mail on that address (wonder whether 
that's ARIN conforming).

The others I'm waiting for a reply and offered to help moving to 
bandersnatch. Lets wait how that turns out, maybe give it a few days 
now that there's a (seemingly) viable alternative to the existing setup.

I'm also pondering getting a view more international VMs under my 
control and set up mirrors in more places. I'll look into that in case 
the other mirrors go away.

Christian