Nick: I'm not sure who owns it yet. If it is one of us, then it would need to be a group vote to use the pypa "brand name" like this. I'll try to get all the pypa people to come here and register their opinion.
here's my personal thoughts: I understand the motivation to reuse our name, but probably less political to start a new nifty short name. "pypack" or something. "pack" as in a group of people, but also short for "packaging" In the spirit of the blog post, here's the 2 doc projects I'd like to see exist under this new ~"pypack" group account, and be linked to from the main python docs. 1) "Python Packaging User Guide": to replace the unmaintained Hitchhiker's guide, or just get permission to copy that in here and get it up to date and more complete. 2) "Python Packaging Dev Hub": a simpler name to replace "python-meta-packaging" give the ~10-15 people that are actively involved in the various packaging projects and PEPs admin/merge access to help maintain these docs. and then announce this on python-announce as real and supported indirectly by the PSF. people will flock IMO to follow it and contribute with pulls and issues Marcus On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey pip/virtualenv folks, does one of you control the pypa placeholder > account on BitBucket? (it seems possible, given it was created shortly > after the Github account). > > I've been pondering the communicating-with-the-broader-community issue > (especially in relation to > http://simeonfranklin.com/blog/2013/mar/17/my-pycon-2013-poster/) and > I'm thinking that the PSF account is the wrong home on BitBucket for > the meta-packaging documentation repo. The PSF has traditionally been > hands off relative to the actual development activities, and I don't > want to change that. > > Instead, I'd prefer to have a separate team account, and also talk to > Vinay about moving pylauncher and distlib under that account. > > I can create a different account if need be, but if one of you > controls pypa, then it would be good to use that and parallel the > pip/virtualenv team account on GitHub. If you don't already control > it, then I'll write to BitBucket support to see if the account is > actually being used for anything, and if not, if there's a way to > request control over it. Failing that, I'll settle for a > similar-but-different name, but "pypa" is definitely my preferred > option. > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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