On Friday, December 14, 2012 5:10:23 PM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > TL;DR - Package squatting is not allowed. If you sit on a package > name and don't publish code, it'll be deleted without warning. > ... > It is hard to really comprehend *just how many* possible package names > there are. ... We'll never run out. There is no scarcity. >
So is there a problem with people registering names, or not? On one hand you implicitly admit to there being scarcity (otherwise there would be no desire to kick people off who are squatting names), on the other you claim there is none. Yes, there is scarcity, and it's caused by npm's single distribution channel and global namespace. While it may be true that you can't "run out" of package names *in general*, don't confuse this with running out of desirable package names for a particular, individual repository. (It also leads to other consequences, like artificially high barriers to forking.) -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
