On May 18, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:

> Phase 1 of PEP 438 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/) has begun.
> 
> Deployed to production PyPI is:
>    - New packages default to pypi-explicit
>    - Old packages default to pypi-scrape-crawl
>    - Package Maintainers can select which hosting mode to use
>    - Package Maintainers can control what urls show up on their /simple/ index
> 
> What's still happening:
> 
>    - All existing packages will be processed to determine if they host files 
> on PyPI, if they host files externally but link directly, or if they Host 
> files externally and require scraping the home or download url pages.
>    - Taking the data obtained from processing email users to tell them if 
> their package can be moved to a more restrictive download option (e.g. all 
> their versions are installable directly from PyPI, or from a direct link from 
> PyPI).
>    - A Month after that actually moving them to their detected new hosting 
> mode (if possible on a per project basis).
> 
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> Donald Stufft
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Forgot to mention, both of those options are available by clicking on "urls" 
when viewing a package you have permissions on, see: 
http://d.stufft.io/image/2h073q2L3Z29
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Donald Stufft
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