Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/02/2012 11:20 PM, Peter Otten wrote: >> Felinx Lee wrote: >> >>> I have removed those packages (girlfriend and others) from PyPI forever, >>> I apologize for that. >> >> The thought police has won :( > > I think the community has a right to defend themselves against trolls. > If it's just bad naming, we can probably just laugh it off; but when a > failed joke spans a half dozen module and just opens a browser to his > website, there is no value for it to stay at PyPI. Additionally, it may > fuel copycats: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kimwoohyeon1/1.3.0 (do anyone > have any idea who submitted that one?)
I think it's a judgment call. "maybe policing uploads is worse than cluttering PyPI's disk space and RSS feed with dumb 1 KB packages." (Matt Chaput) I'd drop the "maybe". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list