[Distutils] b.pypi.python.org

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:22 AM, ken cochrane <kencochrane at 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


>
> Ken
>
>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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