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Another high profile example of such a project: PIL.<br>
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<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
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class="">>> 1. PyYAML is a package that would be
de-registered in such a scheme. It<br>
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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>
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</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
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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
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<div>Time for a fork? </div>
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<div>-CHB</div>
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