Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is > effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come > beyond the days of "noah (at) coderanger [dot] net" and all those silly > tricks that were popular not too long ago. If an author is excessively > concerned about spam, they shouldn't put their email in author_email. Is that > field mandatory now or something? Softpedia is a little annoying with the > emails, but I've found them useful personally (along with versiontracker) > when looking for OS X software before. Freshmeat is a similar index of FOSS > projects, and I've definitely used that before. Is there some reason we are > objecting to including PyPI data in other software catalogs? If it makes it a > tiny bit easier to find Python software, I'm all for it.
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