Let me note upfront that I'm not anyone who has power in the Python community, on PyPI or distutils-sig. However, I can bring my example, confirming that what you describe works.
It may be difficult, and I'm tempted to say, this is usually the case (just a gut feeling, really), that you'll find it difficult to contact the owners of a package on PyPI. I had the necessity, though, and it worked out. Here's how: - I tried to find the owner of the "pyclean" package. There was no repository link, nor an email on PyPI in the package description, etc. - I tried to use the same username on GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab, also for Twitter. - I wasn't immediately lucky, so I did a web search with the (I think) name (or username) combined with the keyword "python". I was lucky! - I found the person, I found the corresponding user name on GitHub - I openen a GitHub issue on an (unrelated) repository [1] of him, and contacted him via Twitter in addition; after a few days he responded. - I explained my plan for the Open Source project and he agreed to hand over the package name. - Following the recommandations of the "pyroma" package I proposed to only _add_ me as an owner, i.e. _not_ replace him. - I also added two other owners, so in feature it will be easier to contact one of the package owner. Hope that explanation helps, Peter [1] https://github.com/felixcarmona/pyhttp/issues/2 P.S.: Let me express my sincere thanks Felix Carmona again for the helpful cooperation! Am So., 5. Mai 2019 um 01:49 Uhr schrieb Emma Tosch <eto...@fastmail.fm>: > > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is not the proper channel for the following question. > > I have a project that I would like to post on PyPI that clashes with an > existing project that I believe may be abandoned > (https://pypi.org/project/toybox/#description). According to this PEP > (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/) it appears that the appropriate > course of action is to attempt to contact the owner of this namespace and > find out if they will transfer ownership to me. In the section of the PEP > that discusses prior art, there is a reference to cc'ing folks from npm when > analogous issues arise over in JS land. It isn't clear to me from this PEP or > its resolution what the proper procedure for pursuing ownership of a claimed, > but possibly abandoned namespace is for PyPI. Is there an email address I > should cc when contacting the namespace owner? How does one initiate an > official request for an abandoned namespace? > > Thanks! > Emma > -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/FD7UHO3ULDLLYXRT5CEUOSF3DTP7NKQE/
