Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> > wrote: >> >> On 15 Jun, 2010, at 19:02, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>> Alexis Métaireau wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Firstly, as Tarek said in another thread, I'm afraid this kill the PEP381 >>>>> about making a mirroring infrastructure. >>>>> Having a infrastructure hosted on a cloud platform may be confortable, and >>>>> probably needed to have a 24/7 running system, but >>>>> we need to take care of letting possible the creation of new public >>>>> mirrors, >>>>> outside from the Amazon (or whatever) cloud infrastructure. >>>> >>>> The proposal doesn't prevent that. However, please note that >>>> setting up public mirrors not under PSF control has its own >>>> set of (legal) problems, which the PSF hosted cloud setup avoids. >>> >>> Mirrors already exists out there, so unless you ban them (which would >>> be a really bad idea) >>> setting up a cloud will not fix any legal issue if you think there's a >>> legal issue. >>> >>> In any case, you can't prevent people from creating mirrors even if you >>> would say its illegal. Moreover, having mirrors provided by the community >>> is way better than relying on one single entity (the PSF) for this. >>> (if we think "decentralized") >> >> Why is having community mirrors better than one managed by the PSF? > > Because it's not controlled anymore by one single entity. For example, > if something is broken in the system > and need a human intervention, and the sysadmin people are not > available, we get a downtime.
I'm not sure I understand: if the PyPI server goes down, the data will still be readily available on Amazon S3 and Cloudfront caches - the cronjobs copy over the PyPI server content to S3 and Cloudfront serves it up from there. And if Cloudfront or S3 goes down, client tools could still try to access the PyPI server. (I'll add a note about that to the proposal.) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 15 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 33 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
