On May 28, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> Moving to a CDN has been discussed before on either catalog-sig or >> distutils-sig (Can't recall which offhand). >> >> Weekly status updates were posted to the infrastructure list as well as the >> communication between us and Fastly as we ironed out SSL issues. >> >> The mirroring issue pre-invalidation was quickly corrected. We now >> invalidate and we are looking at a window that is at most a few seconds >> large. > > One of the things I (successfully) advocated for at PyCon US was to > open up the PEP process to cover things where python-dev aren't > directly involved, but we need an official avenue for publication of > significant changes in the Python ecosystem (with my main aim being to > empower distutils-sig as a place where we could actually making final > decisions about the evolution of the packaging ecosystem). > > Given that, an Informational PEP with Discussion-To set to > infrastructure-sig and Noah as BDFL-Delegate would be an eminently > suitable way of keeping PyPI users and mirror operators that *aren't* > following infrastructure-sig informed of upcoming changes that may > impact the operation of PyPI clients. > > infrastructure-sig has historically just been for backend hosting > details, without significant impact to *client* facing behaviour - > while I think it's fine to change that, it's also understandable that > most developers of PyPI clients wouldn't be aware of upcoming changes > that have only been discussed in detail on that list. > It is only a significant change if you make invalid assumptions about HTTP and consistent state between two requests. If you want to rely on that then let's talk about a system where we can reliably promise that. > So, as Holger said, great work and thanks for your efforts, but good > communication does matter with these things. People don't like > surprises, even well intentioned ones :) > Point taken. In the future ill post any infrastructure upgrades I'm involved in not only to the infrastructure list but also to distutils sig. > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
