On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:33 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. >> > > OK, what would be the procedure for removing a mirror? Anyone know who is > in charge of this mirror? I think Guido had it setup when he worked at > Google, and google is paying for the costs of the mirror, but now that he > doesn't work for Google, not sure who might be the contact person on that > side. > I've asked Guido who are admins on the account it to get it turned off. If he doesn't know I can try to find out internally. -Brett > > If we can get it up to date again, I think it is fine, but an out of date > mirror is not useful to anyone, and it could cause problems in the long run. > > >> >> 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 anyway. > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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