On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I like the python packaging authority brand and think it would be great to put some renewed authority behind it. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
