Alexis Metaireau wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 09:52 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >> there is now a way to request release information in JSON, >>> see http://tinyurl.com/38lefsp > That's indeed cool, and useful, but we can't rely on this while > crawling, too bad this JSON is not replicated on the mirrors. > > It could help a lot, since there is currently no way to request the > metadatas statically in others way that downloading the distribution > archives and extracting them. (we also could use xmlrpc, but that's not > static). > > What's the process I have to follow in order to get this mirrored ? Does > that sounds good for you ? IOW, whats needed to have this as a > requirements for mirrors?
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