Oh well. I wonder if offering money would change the situation. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> wrote:
> Hi Guido, > > Because this sort of thing has come up a lot in the past, and because I've > copped trouble for mishandling it in the past, I took the trouble of > writing up a formal description of how I handle these sorts of issues: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elum7ENjQb0dLB4ATfYNtnXYVLUzsKacc0VWnHHJb2A/edit?usp=sharing > > I believe Donald follows the same, or a very similar procedure. > > In short, all that can be done has been done, from my perspective. Someone > has published their module, and regardless of any opinion of it, or desire > to also use that name, I have to respect that they published first. In the > absence of explicit consent from them to do anything, my hands are tied. > I've taken unilateral action in the past to my personal detriment. > > Of course, once I'm no longer a PyPI admin (I look forward to the day so > very much) someone else will have to make these decisions. > > > Richard > > > On 16 April 2016 at 09:29, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> 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) 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. >> >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> >> > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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