I've fallen into this trap as well, so +1 for the takeover. It might be a good idea to come up with a standardized process for taking over old, unmaintained packages. 16.04.2016, 02:29, Guido van Rossum kirjoitti:
Brett suggested I ask the kind folks here.
As you may or may not know, there's an old unmaintained "mypy" package on PyPI that attracts a fair amount of downloads from people trying to download mypy the type checker. We then get bug reports and have to explain in our tracker that they have to use "pip install mypy-lang" instead.
Query: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue++dbutils+
That mypy package was last updated in 2011, and it's a quite forgettable combination of copied open-source packages and a little bit of glue code presumably written by the package author. Both Donald and myself have approached the owner (zsp007@gmail.com <mailto:zsp007@gmail.com>) but not received any response. Is there a "higher authority" to whom we can appeal this, or are we just stuck with this situation?
As Brett wrote part of the problem, though, is the mypy project has 2244 downloads in the last month which shows it's being used and we don't want to end up in an npm/left_pad situation. (But how many of those downloads are misguided attempts to install mypy-lang?)
One possibility, if people aren't happy with me or Jukka taking over owhership of the old mypy package, would be for someone (not me or Jukka) to take ownership of that package just so they can update the PyPI home page for that package with a prominent note telling people looking for Jukka's type checker to use mypy-lang instead.
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