[Distutils] Towards a bandersnatch release - updates, PIP, contacting mirror owners

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

I spend some more time on bandersnatch and I'm ready for a stable 
release, I guess.

Updates
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* Add a specific user agent to XML-RPC and plain HTTP calls
* Add a specific user agent to the logging to support debugging
* Provide a default (10s) network timeout and a config option to customize
* Clean up README

PIP
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I'd be happy to cut a release now. Holger Krekel asked me whether I 
could ensure that bandersnatch is pip installable. Looking through the 
PIP documentation I don't see how I can make a simple "pip install 
bandersnatch" repeatable.

Especially if someone would run a public mirror I would prefer if they 
would use an installation method that makes their deployment 
repeatable. From my own experience and background I would prefer 
buildout in the following style:

$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ctheune/bandersnatch
$ cd bandersnatch
$ hg co 1.0
$ virtualenv-2.7 .
$ bin/python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/bandersnatch

Thoughts?

Contacting mirror owners
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All this work is directed towards getting the existing official mirrors 
back to a "green bar" situation soon. Can someone help me contact the 
existing mirror owners to convince them to switch tools?

Also, I'd be happy to run a couple vhosts around the world to extend 
the network if some people throw in some money (gittip?)

Cheers,
Christian