On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <t...@students.poly.edu> wrote: > On Fri 31 May 2013 04:34:43 PM EDT, Tres Seaver wrote: >> >> >> Why all the extras: if somebody wants to claim a project name, but can't >> upload a release for six months, they should just lose. I would actually >> be willing to have that cut down to a day: trying to grab the name >> before registering / uploading a release should result in loss of the >> claim. >> > > Firstly, let me say that the general idea sounds good, and should serve to > improve PyPI security. However, it needs to be done carefully. Certainly > Holger's idea of looking at how other programming language communities have > done it is a good one. > > A potential problem with the "no new package in six months" heuristic is > that it would punish mature packages with little or no improvements left. > Would one defeat this rule by simply uploading a "new" package every six > months?
I think Tres was referring to the first release. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
