[Distutils] PEP449 - Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and Naming Scheme

[Christian Theune]

On 27. Aug2013, at 5:22 PM, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:

> Howdi,
> 
> On 17. Aug2013, at 7:55 AM, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry for the stealth mode. The long thread has been sitting in my Inbox while the last week was very busy and we're hosting a sprint at our offices right now.
>> 
>> I hope I will get around to reading and responding early next week.
> 
> Well, almost. 
> 
> Picking the pieces back up, I'll stop bickering now [1].
> 
> I'm grateful for the offer to include gocept in a more formally trusted relationship. However, I don't think that adds more value and just defers paying back technical debt.
> 
> I'll be a bit more aggressive with the migration and plan to do the following things:
> 
> In the next days
> 
> - Establish a new primary name for our mirror (probably pypi.rzob.gocept.net or something similar)

The new primary name is "pypi.gocept.com". This already existed before.

> - Inform our internal team that they should update f.pypi.python.org to the new name
> - Make f.pypi.python.org serve 301 redirects to the new name

It does this now.

I will also add a valid SSL certificate in the next minutes. What's your take on enforcing SSL e.g. via redirects?

Christian

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