Hi folks, sorry for the delay, I was on vacation and then catching up on stuff. I've composed a draft of the policy and I welcome your comments (in the doc, please): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elum7ENjQb0dLB4ATfYNtnXYVLUzsKacc0VWnHHJ... My apologies if I've missed some nuance in a particular contribution to this discussion: please just leave a comment in the doc :) Richard On 23 September 2014 07:49, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 Sep 2014 00:19, "Antoine Pitrou" <antoine@python.org> wrote:
Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
PyPI inherinently has complete control over who owns what name on PyPI.
Political authority does not derive from technical control, though.
As Toshio said that are situations where it makes *obvious* sense to
ownership of a project. Using Django as an pretty good example here, There are four people able to make releases there, until fairly recently there were only two if I recall. I don't think anyone would be against PyPI transfering ownership of Django to another active core developer of Django in the event that all of the people with permissions on PyPI were gone in some fashion.
Assuming the remaining Django core developers agree on it, then, yes,
can make sense. That's because they are the primary authors of the
(even though they might not have been listed as such on PyPI).
The case people are worried about is whether someone who is not part of
original project author(s) or maintainer(s) can get assigned the PyPI
transfer that project the project.
In that case people should use one of the forks; there's no reason for PyPI to crown a successor.
That's why I consider it important to get the original project's issue tracker involved in the transfer process. I'd also be OK with a process that required an affirmative "Yes" from the project community, defaulting to "No transfer" in the case of a lack of response.
Transfers are most needed for highly active projects where a fork could have a lot of ripple effects. I think it's reasonable to interpret "nobody cared enough to say yes or no" as "nobody cares enough for a transfer to be needed - just fork it rather than claiming the name".
Regards, Nick.
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