[Distutils] b.pypi.python.org

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:33 AM, ken cochrane <kencochrane at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> b.pypi.python.org is an official mirror that runs on Google App engine,
>> and it uses a special mirror package built just for GAE. Code for it is
>> found here. https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi-appengine
>>
>> b.pypi.python.org has been broken for over 104 days according to
>> http://www.pypi-mirrors.org, and this is because of an issue when we
>> switched pypi over to serving over SSL.
>>
>> I have submitted a pull request to fix this.
>> https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi-appengine/pull-request/2/change-pypi-mirror-connection-to-https/diff#comment-262919 but it hasn't been accepted.
>>
>> I am one of the maintainers of b.pypi.python.org, so I can see the logs
>> and push out a new version.
>> I haven't needed to push a version out before, and I'm a little hesitant
>> incase I do it wrong and break something.
>>
>> I also don't want to push code to GAE from my fork, until my PR gets
>> accepted or else someone else in the future might deploy the original one
>> again and remove my fix.
>>
>> Two things:
>>
>> 1. Now that we have the pypi CDN up, do we still need this mirror?
>>
>>
>> Honestly probably not. Mirrors are less important from a
>> availability/speed side of things now and will likely move to being more
>> useful for companies and such to use.
>>
>
> OK, what would be the procedure for removing a mirror? Anyone know who is
> in charge of this mirror? I think Guido had it setup when he worked at
> Google, and google is paying for the costs of the mirror, but  now that he
> doesn't work for Google, not sure who might be the contact person on that
> side.
>

I've asked Guido who are admins on the account it to get it turned off. If
he doesn't know I can try to find out internally.

-Brett


>
> If we can get it up to date again, I think it is fine, but an out of date
> mirror is not useful to anyone, and it could cause problems in the long run.
>
>
>>
>> 2. If yes to 1. if someone can take a minute to review my PR, and leave
>> comments, or if you have the power, accept my pull request and push out a
>> new version so we can get the mirror up to date.
>>
>>
>> I don't have such permission sadly.
>>
>>
> Thank you anyway.
>
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