On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
For the record, CPAN and npm both have similar things allowing someone to take over an abandoned project.
I don’t believe ruby gems has an official policy and it appears that they are hesitant to do this form the threads I’ve seen (Though they mentioned doing it for _why).
Good information.
Most of the Linux distros have some mechanism for someone to claim that a particular package in the distro is no longer maintained and to attempt to take it over, though is somewhat different.
yeah, I come from distro land but I'm hesitant to point directly at any of our documented policies on this because there are some differences between being a bunch of people working together to make a set of curated and integrated packages vs a loosely associated group of developers who happen to use a shared namespace within a popular service. All distros I can think of have some sort of self-governance whereas pypi is more akin to a bunch of customers making use of a service. Some of the distro policies don't apply very well in this space. Some do, however, so I hope other people who are familiar with their distros will also filter the relevant policy ideas from their realms and put them forward. -Toshio