> On Oct 12, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Stefan Krah <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> (for example right now bytereef.org is down, so >> we’d not discover any files there). > > Indeed. It was up reliably since 2005, down for maintenance on > September 23rd (before ShellShock ...). Then I discovered that > someone had put up m3-cdecimal on PyPI (presumably abusing PyPI > as their private repo --- there are several m3-* packages now).
If you’re this upset over someone redistributing your work, then maybe Open Source Software is the wrong hobby for you. Nonetheless I told you how to get that remediated and as of yet I don’t see an open support request from you on it. > > This triggered some reflection on whether I would make a significant > effort in the future to keep things running smoothly for an open source > community where authors are largely viewed as expendable. Authors are not viewed as expendable. Placing constraints on a system is just that, placing constraints on a system. > > > Subsequently the downtime (again, the first one since 2005) was picked > up for propagandistic purposes on Twitter and Reddit. I think you might want to rethink this strategy if it’s your goal, unless the view point you’re trying to push is that I was right all along because there are a number of people* who previously didn’t think it was a big deal but now agree with me since they couldn’t install cdecimal because bytrereef.org was down. * That have personally reached out to me. > > > Last year I would have felt an obligation to minimize the downtime > to an hour at most. I no longer feel any such obligations and I'll > do it when I have time. By all means! You don’t owe anyone your time, so if you want to wait until some other point go for it. Until then, well it’s making my case for me when people don’t understand why I care, so thanks :) --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
