fwiw I go back and forth on how I feel about this. For sure the client wants to select the mirror based on network performance to them. But I feel like if a mirror get's to be "stuck" and not updating that PyPI should at some point remove it from the pool (and notify the owner that it has done so) until it catches back up.
On Monday, April 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to update a > > DNS load balancer with all green mirrors? > > > > > I still think that mirror selection should be on the client side. First, > if you have an infrastructure that updates the mirror list, it is again > a single point of failure. Plus, clients would want to select a mirror > based on network performance, which a DNS load balancer cannot achieve. > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > Catalog-SIG@python.org (mailto:Catalog-SIG@python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > >
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