Ok, numbers updated with better processing that looks right this time. I still 
believe it holds up to the conclusions I said earlier.

https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5ebfb0d7e53194e5f89e

On May 17, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On May 17, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 16, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Carl Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Basically, I think some acknowledgment of this problem of packages
>>>>> without active maintainers (and ideally a proposed solution to it)
>>>>> should be in PEP 470.
>>>> 
>>>> Right now the PEP's (and my) position is that it breaks because I believe 
>>>> that
>>>> the impact of this change is being overblown. I'm attempting to gather more
>>>> data now.
>>> 
>>> You could be right. More data would certainly be good.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for all your work on all this stuff!
>>> 
>>> Carl
>> 
>> So I’ve went ahead and processed the data. I did this by taking the list of 
>> projects which *only* host externally, either safely or unsafely. This ended 
>> up being a little over 1700 projects. After that I took the log file from 
>> PyPI for 2014-05-14 and looked for any hits on their simple page by pip or 
>> setuptools. I only looked for these two in order to exclude mirroring 
>> clients and the like.
>> 
>> The end result is that 339 projects have any hits at all, ~1400 projects did 
>> not receive any hits to their simple page in that time at all. A handful of 
>> projects received significant hits, with PIL being an obvious outlier that 
>> received ~72k.
>> 
>> Here are the list of projects that received any hits to their simple page 
>> which are hosted completely off of PyPI:
>> 
>>   https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5ebfb0d7e53194e5f89e
>> 
>> I feel that this validates my assumption that the vast bulk of these 
>> external projects are vestigial.
>> 
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> Hmm, scratch this. these numbers may be wrong. I’m going through and spot 
> checking them and something seems off. Will re-evaluate.
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