Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

Nick Coghlan wrote: Naming projects in general is hard though, especially for relatively arcane tasks like typechecking annotated Python code. Maybe obtaining a public name on PyPI should be a little bit harder than just using the first name that comes into one's head? Such as getting approval

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

On 22 April 2016 at 09:40, Ionel Cristian Mărieș wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Chris Barker > wrote: > >> If that author were to suddenly decide to publish some malware under that >> name -- it would get a lot of traffic! > > > ​That's

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > If that author were to suddenly decide to publish some malware under that > name -- it would get a lot of traffic! ​That's the problem with badly chosen names.​ I mean, what do you expect when you give a name taken

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > it has published ONE version, in 2011. Have you actually checked? There are 40 releases since 2009: ​ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mypy/json​ Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Alexander Walters wrote: > On 4/21/2016 15:02, Chris Barker wrote: > >> Good evidence that the "first come first served, and then you get to keep >> it forever" is not ideal. >> > > Criminal violations of trademark are evidence that its

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

On 4/21/2016 15:02, Chris Barker wrote: Good evidence that the "first come first served, and then you get to keep it forever" is not ideal. Criminal violations of trademark are evidence that its not ideal, and therefor we should make pypi untrustworthy for all other cases? This case is

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

Interesting. Good evidence that the "first come first served, and then you get to keep it forever" is not ideal. As someone pointed out in the other thread, we probably don't want to change policy on existing packages, but maybe it would be good to get *some* policy in place for when warehouse

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

--- > From: Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> > Sent: ‎4/‎19/‎2016 21:52 > To: Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> > Cc: disutils-sig <distutils-sig@python.org>; Christopher Wilcox > <pyt...@crwilcox.com> > Subject: Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyP

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

hristopher Wilcox" <pyt...@crwilcox.com> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena I’m 100% sure Steve is a Microsoft employee and I’m like 95% sure Christopher is too :) On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:24 AM, Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> wrote: Just to be clear, a

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

I’m 100% sure Steve is a Microsoft employee and I’m like 95% sure Christopher is too :) > On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:24 AM, Richard Jones wrote: > > Just to be clear, are you the user "Microsoft"? You're not posting from a > @microsoft.com email domain,

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

Just to be clear, are you the user "Microsoft"? You're not posting from a @ microsoft.com email domain, is all. Or are you just a "concerned citizen"? Because in the case of the latter there's really nothing for me to do here without a request from someone actually wanting to do something with the

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

The usual process is to request such things through the support tracker so there's a 'paper trail', but I've been unable to attend to the queue of requests there recently so I'm going to make a special effort here. Please do consider making a request in the support tracker though, thanks. I'll

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

python.org> Subject: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena DistUtils-Sig: I was searching warehouse for all Microsoft owned packages today and came across a certain user that seems to have parked on a few different package names that I don’t believe he has any intention of using

[Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

DistUtils-Sig: I was searching warehouse for all Microsoft owned packages today and came across a certain user that seems to have parked on a few different package names that I don’t believe he has any intention of using (@rodmena). https://warehouse.python.org/user/rodmena/ Can we get these