On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:43 AM, ken cochrane <kencochr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> b.pypi.python.org is an official mirror that runs on Google App engine, and 
> it uses a special mirror package built just for GAE. Code for it is found 
> here. https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi-appengine
> 
> b.pypi.python.org has been broken for over 104 days according to 
> http://www.pypi-mirrors.org, and this is because of an issue when we switched 
> pypi over to serving over SSL. 
> 
> I have submitted a pull request to fix this. 
> https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi-appengine/pull-request/2/change-pypi-mirror-connection-to-https/diff#comment-262919
>   but it hasn't been accepted.
> 
> I am one of the maintainers of b.pypi.python.org, so I can see the logs and 
> push out a new version. 
> I haven't needed to push a version out before, and I'm a little hesitant 
> incase I do it wrong and break something. 
> 
> I also don't want to push code to GAE from my fork, until my PR gets accepted 
> or else someone else in the future might deploy the original one again and 
> remove my fix.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1. Now that we have the pypi CDN up, do we still need this mirror?

Honestly probably not. Mirrors are less important from a availability/speed 
side of things now and will likely move to being more useful for companies and 
such to use.

> 
> 2. If yes to 1. if someone can take a minute to review my PR, and leave 
> comments, or if you have the power, accept my pull request and push out a new 
> version so we can get the mirror up to date.

I don't have such permission sadly.

> 
> Thank you,
> Ken Cochrane
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