On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 at 17:51 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:

b) Is there a serious lack of folks available to address such issues?

This is the correct answer. I can't even keep on top of the request from people wanting to take over packages.

if (b), should we make a concerted effort to recruit new folks to assist PyPi maintenance / development???

That would be nice, but would be pointless until Warehouse goes live.

When do we expect that? A lot of people rely on the current system, we really need to find a way to maintain it 'till it's replaced.

Do realize that this is in regards to the search box, not the ability for PyPI to keep standing to serve files. Obviously if something happened to file serving or some critical aspect of PyPI then that would get addressed ASAP. But fixing a search box is not critical infrastructure so I don't think it warrants a "all hands on deck" call for help over trying to get the replacement code done instead (I get people use the search box, but there are well-known alternatives for searching PyPI). In all honesty, if people want a functioning search box on PyPI I would say they should submit a patch to use https://cse.google.com/cse/ .