On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:26 PM, ken cochrane <kencochr...@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, >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> Paging Noah to kill the DNS Unless there's any objections to removing it? > > If no one complains in the next 24-ish hours I'll just point it back at > pypi.python.org like we did with d.pypi. This is now complete. In another 24 hours there should be no traffic to the GAE app and it can just be archived or deleted. --Noah
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