<div>Nick:</div><div><br></div>I'm not sure who owns it yet.<div>If it is one of us, then it would need to be a group vote to use the pypa "brand name" like this.</div><div>I'll try to get all the pypa people to come here and register their opinion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>here's my personal thoughts:</div><div><br></div><div>I understand the motivation to reuse our name, but probably less political to start a new nifty short name. </div><div>"pypack" or something. "pack" as in a group of people, but also short for "packaging"</div>
<div> </div><div>In the spirit of the blog post, here's the 2 doc projects I'd like to see exist under this new ~"pypack" group account, and be linked to from the main python docs.</div><div><br></div>
<div>1) "Python Packaging User Guide": to replace the unmaintained Hitchhiker's guide, or just get permission to copy that in here and get it up to date and more complete.</div>
<div>2) "Python Packaging Dev Hub": a simpler name to replace "python-meta-packaging"</div><div><br></div><div>give the ~10-15 people that are actively involved in the various packaging projects and PEPs admin/merge access to help maintain these docs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>and then announce this on python-announce as real and supported indirectly by the PSF.</div><div><br></div><div>people will flock IMO to follow it and contribute with pulls and issues</div>
<div><br></div><div>Marcus</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey pip/virtualenv folks, does one of you control the pypa placeholder<br>
account on BitBucket? (it seems possible, given it was created shortly<br>
after the Github account).<br>
<br>
I've been pondering the communicating-with-the-broader-community issue<br>
(especially in relation to<br>
<a href="http://simeonfranklin.com/blog/2013/mar/17/my-pycon-2013-poster/" target="_blank">http://simeonfranklin.com/blog/2013/mar/17/my-pycon-2013-poster/</a>) and<br>
I'm thinking that the PSF account is the wrong home on BitBucket for<br>
the meta-packaging documentation repo. The PSF has traditionally been<br>
hands off relative to the actual development activities, and I don't<br>
want to change that.<br>
<br>
Instead, I'd prefer to have a separate team account, and also talk to<br>
Vinay about moving pylauncher and distlib under that account.<br>
<br>
I can create a different account if need be, but if one of you<br>
controls pypa, then it would be good to use that and parallel the<br>
pip/virtualenv team account on GitHub. If you don't already control<br>
it, then I'll write to BitBucket support to see if the account is<br>
actually being used for anything, and if not, if there's a way to<br>
request control over it. Failing that, I'll settle for a<br>
similar-but-different name, but "pypa" is definitely my preferred<br>
option.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Nick.<br>
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