On 28.05.2013 14:26, Nick Coghlan 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.
I don't think the infra sig is the right host for such discussions and decisions. I'd suggest to use the distutils-sig and make Donald/Richard the PEP master for PyPI things, as they are maintaining it. > 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 :) We've had the CDN discussion for quite a while and I even setup a test CDN some months ago. No one ever mentioned the HTTP/1.0 problem and so it simply wasn't on the radar. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 28 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-07-01: EuroPython 2013, Florence, Italy ... 34 days to go ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
