[Distutils] b.pypi.python.org

[Brett Cannon]

I might not get to it for a week, but I will get to it.


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:26 PM, ken cochrane <kencochrane at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>>   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
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
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> Brett,
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> 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.
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>>>>> 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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