<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 2, 2013, at 6:51 AM, <a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Quoting Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm -1 on anything that doesn't involve at least a minimal level of human<br>involvement (possibly excepting an initial clean up exercise for projects<br>with no author email)<br></blockquote><br>I support this position. This is actually how PyPI has operated over the last<br>decade. People have always taken over projects, either the project entirely,<br>or just the name. It always involved contacting the original owner of the name.<br><br>In this thread, Lukas wrote<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Fortunately we were able to work it out with Richard<br>but we had to contact him directly and waste his cycles on this.<br></blockquote><br>I don't consider his cycles wasted at all. It's an important interaction.<br><br>I'm fine with formalizing the process, and I'm also fine with adding tool<br>support. However, I agree that a PEP should be written and agreed about this.<br><br>Personally, I'd favor this procedure:<br>- nothing happens unless some user explicitly requests it<br>- on request, the owner is contacted, and given some time to respond<br>- if they do respond, and are unwilling to yield the name, nothing<br> happens<br>- if they have confirmed that they want to keep the name, they won't<br> be asked again for at least one year.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The missing case here is what happens if they don't respond?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Regards,<br>Martin<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Distutils-SIG maillist - <a href="mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org">Distutils-SIG@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div>
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