<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 14, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Steve Dower <<a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org" class="">steve.dower@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm still keen to find a way to redirect people to useful forks or alternative packages that doesn't require thousands of mentions at conferences for all time ala PIL.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">I’m not opposed to this but we’ll want to make sure we’re careful about how we do it. PIL is an easy example where the maintainer is gone and there is a community fork of it. But I struggle to come up with very many more examples of this where there is something that is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Popular enough that enough people are tripping over it to make it worth it.</div><div class="">- There is a clear successor (or successors).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Off the top of my head I can only really think of PIL, and *maybe* suds. Unless there’s a lot of these maybe all we really need is a policy for when administrators can/will edit the page to direct people towards a different project or a way to add an admin message directing people to another project.</div><div class="">
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