Sorry, please ignore that email. I hit "Send" too soon. > We > cant unilaterally hand over names on pypi to unrelated.. or even related.. > projects because they have a name someone else wants.
What I *meant* to say here was that when a request for a name transfer gets no reply, it's helpful to know if the email address is no longer responding at all. Nothing more than that. That might help anyone making a decision to decide what to do. But no, I agree absolutely we can't just hand over names. Paul On 16 April 2016 at 19:48, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 April 2016 at 17:42, Alexander Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote: >> To what end? > > To the end of ensuring that people can get in touch with project owners. > >> As much as old packages cluttering the namespace of pypi is >> annoying, the only thing that will accomplish is orphaning projects. > > Not at all. The projects that would be affected by this are those that > are already orphaned, in the sense that there's no means to contact > the owner. > >> We >> cant unilaterally hand over names on pypi to unrelated.. or even related.. >> projects because they have a name someone else wants. > > I'm not proposing anything like that - I guess when I said "requiring > project owners to provide an email address..." it read like I was > suggesting removing stuff if the owner went away. I hadn't really > thought much about what we *do* with projects where the contact email > becomes unmonitored (I *so* think it's acceptable to require a working > contact email when a project is registered, or maybe when a user > registers _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
