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    Another high profile example of such a project: PIL.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Was PIL ever on PyPi? Anyway, yup, the solution there was to fork give it s new name -- Pillow was born.</div><div><br></div><div>CHB</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>

    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">19.04.2016, 00:56, Chris Barker

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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Ian

            Cordasco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graffatcolmingov@gmail.com" target="_blank">graffatcolmingov@gmail.com</a>></span>

            wrote:<br>

            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">>> 1.ï¿½ PyYAML is a package that would be

                de-registered in such a scheme.ï¿½ It<br>

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            <div>ï¿½</div>

            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> and you don't think ANYONE would be

                willing to take on the miniscule amount<br>

                > of work to maintain the name? Plus there would be

                any number of other<br>

                > schemes for determining whether a project name is

                abandoned.<br>

                <br>

              </span>I have in fact offered but the author refuses to

              accept help from<br>

              anyone. They're also the author of the C library (libyaml)

              and they do<br>

              not maintain that either. It's actually quite frustrating

              as someone<br>

              who wants to fix some of the numerous bugs in the library

              + improve it<br>

              and add support for YAML 1.2 which is years old at this

              point.</blockquote>

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            <div>Interesting third case I hadn't considered -- the

              original author is still "active", but not actually

              maintaining the software or accepting help. I don't think

              there is anything PyPi policy can do about that -- too

              bad.</div>

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            <div>Time for a fork?ï¿½</div>

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            <div>-CHB</div>

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            <div>ï¿½</div>

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          -- <br>

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