I've fallen into this trap as well, so +1 for the takeover.
It might be a good idea to come up with a standardized process for
taking over old, unmaintained packages.
16.04.2016, 02:29, Guido van Rossum kirjoitti:
Brett suggested I ask the kind folks here.
As you may or may not know, there's an old unmaintained "mypy" package
on PyPI that attracts a fair amount of downloads from people trying to
download mypy the type checker. We then get bug reports and have to
explain in our tracker that they have to use "pip install mypy-lang"
instead.
Query:
https://github.com/python/mypy/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue++dbutils+
That mypy package was last updated in 2011, and it's a quite
forgettable combination of copied open-source packages and a little
bit of glue code presumably written by the package author. Both Donald
and myself have approached the owner (zsp...@gmail.com
<mailto:zsp...@gmail.com>) but not received any response. Is there a
"higher authority" to whom we can appeal this, or are we just stuck
with this situation?
As Brett wrote part of the problem, though, is the mypy project has
2244 downloads in the last month which shows it's being used and we
don't want to end up in an npm/left_pad situation. (But how many of
those downloads are misguided attempts to install mypy-lang?)
One possibility, if people aren't happy with me or Jukka taking over
owhership of the old mypy package, would be for someone (not me or
Jukka) to take ownership of that package just so they can update the
PyPI home page for that package with a prominent note telling people
looking for Jukka's type checker to use mypy-lang instead.
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