On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:26 PM, 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, >> >> Here is the owner list that I can see on GAE >> >> - guido >> - kencochrane (me) >> - kumar.mcmillan >> - martin.v.loewis >> - r1chardj0n3s >> >> So Guido didn't even know he was an owner. =) >> >> In terms of shutting down the app, you will want to do two things. First is >> empty out the cron.yaml file; it should have nothing more than "cron:". >> After that you probably want to return 404 for everything; see >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/189935/236574 on how to do that for all URLs. >> >> If you want, Ken, I can clone >> https://bitbucket.org/kencochrane/pypi-appengine and send you a pull request >> to do all of this since I recently did something similar for >> py3ksupport.appspot.com when I shut it down. >> >> Brett, >> >> If our goal is to shut it down, then yes please, if you can send a pull >> request that would be great.. We should also probably remove it from the >> pypi mirror pool before we do this so it no longer gets traffic sent it's >> way. >> >> >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> > > Paging Noah to kill the DNS Unless there's any objections to removing it?
If no one complains in the next 24-ish hours I'll just point it back at pypi.python.org like we did with d.pypi. --Noah
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