On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:06 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Agreed. Until this issue is resolved we can't allow (public) third-party >> mirrors. Given the recent adverse reactions to PyPi changes we should be >> careful not to cause any further offense. > > Perhaps the PSF should start creating a list of official public > mirrors. We would then need to add a mention of this to the PyPI > usage license I posted. > > Setting up an official mirror would then require approval of the PSF > and allow the PSF to monitor and maintain a good quality service. > Package manager tools could then use the list of official mirrors > to find a nearby mirror for downloading the package information.
That's basically what I've proposed in PEP 381 : 1/ the mirror maintainer proposes its mirror in the Catalog mailing-list 2/ if it's accepted, it's added in the list of IPs in the pypi DNS 3/ client tools like PIP develop a geloc feature to use the nearest mirror, by getting the list of IPs http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#how-a-client-can-use-pypi-and-its-mirrors I could add in the PEP the fact that the mirror has to be accepted by the PSF Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
