[Distutils] outdated PyPI mirrors

Richard Jones richard at python.org
Wed Apr 17 17:59:57 CEST 2013


I'm afraid I don't have contacts for the mirrors - it's not something I've
been involved with.


     Richard


On 12 April 2013 08:27, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:

> 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 3 out of 8 PyPI mirror are out of date or not available.
>>
>> This is not good for the PyPI reputation.
>>
>> Of course mirror can have problems for a while but the
>> maintainers should feel in charge of maintaining
>> and checking their mirrors regularly.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> g seems to have come back to life, yay!
>
> I got a response from someone at the 'd' network (David Crowe) who says he
> isn't in touch with the Python community and doesn't know about the
> installation. Not sure how to follow up on this.
>
> b seems to be a candidate for removal.
>
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