OK, http://www.pypi-mirrors.org is now reporting b.pypi.python.org as N/A which I believe means the DNS propagation is complete. We can move on to phase 2 and use Brett's trick to switch to serving 404's for everything for a little while (how long?) and then fully turn off the app.
Ken On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > This is now complete. In another 24 hours there should be no traffic to > the GAE app and it can just be archived or deleted. > > --Noah > >
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