On Apr 11, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Christian Theune <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2013-04-11 12:44:54 +0000, Andreas Jung said: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> According to >> http://www.pypi-mirrors.org/ >> 3 out of 8 PyPI mirror are out of date or not available. >> This is not good for the PyPI reputation. >> Of course mirror can have problems for a while but the >> maintainers should feel in charge of maintaining >> and checking their mirrors regularly. >> I propose that an obvious unmaintained mirror should be removed >> (temporarily) if it has not been updated after N days. Right now >> N = 50 and N = 69 which is hardly acceptable. > > I started trying to track down the owners this morning. I managed to send > email to 3 of them based on their I network contacts. Google responded that > they don't want mail on that address (wonder whether that's ARIN conforming). > > The others I'm waiting for a reply and offered to help moving to > bandersnatch. Lets wait how that turns out, maybe give it a few days now that > there's a (seemingly) viable alternative to the existing setup. > > I'm also pondering getting a view more international VMs under my control and > set up mirrors in more places. I'll look into that in case the other mirrors > go away. > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig b.pypi.python.org is run by MvL I think, and it's on GAE so it needed a special script and doesn't use pep381client. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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