<div dir="ltr">On 1 June 2013 16:00, Chris Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@simplistix.co.uk" target="_blank">chris@simplistix.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">I'm afraid I need to -1 on this. If I'm developing a new package, I try and avoid putting a release on PyPI until I have something stable, but I'll often put up an entry on PyPI explaining where the code is being developed.</span><br>
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Working on a project for a year only to find that someone else has stolen your package name on PyPI (playing devils advocate here, lets say they saw the development of GitHub and knew a release was brewing, etc) and having to go through and rename everything seems unfairly painful...</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div style>I'd say that at a minimum, no deletion should happen without the author being contacted. As long as there's an author email, and the author actually replies to emails saying "do you mind if I take over this project name".</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I'm -1 on anything that doesn't involve at least a minimal level of human involvement (possibly excepting an initial clean up exercise for projects with no author email)</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Paul</div></div><br></div></div>