I also support human involvement. I don't deal with so many cases that it's such a burden - though I do have a bit of a backlog at the moment due to lack of personal time.
Having said that, I can see value in automatically clearing out empty (no meta-data, no files) registrations 6+ months after they're created. On 2 June 2013 20:51, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quoting Paul Moore <[email protected]>: > > I'm -1 on anything that doesn't involve at least a minimal level of human >> involvement (possibly excepting an initial clean up exercise for projects >> with no author email) >> > > I support this position. This is actually how PyPI has operated over the > last > decade. People have always taken over projects, either the project > entirely, > or just the name. It always involved contacting the original owner of the > name. > > In this thread, Lukas wrote > > > Fortunately we were able to work it out with Richard >> but we had to contact him directly and waste his cycles on this. >> > > I don't consider his cycles wasted at all. It's an important interaction. > > I'm fine with formalizing the process, and I'm also fine with adding tool > support. However, I agree that a PEP should be written and agreed about > this. > > Personally, I'd favor this procedure: > - nothing happens unless some user explicitly requests it > - on request, the owner is contacted, and given some time to respond > - if they do respond, and are unwilling to yield the name, nothing > happens > - if they have confirmed that they want to keep the name, they won't > be asked again for at least one year. > > Regards, > Martin > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig> >
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