[Catalog-sig] Changing maintainer of docx package

[Richard Jones]

Hi Mike,

We prefer to handle PyPI support issues through the tracker linked from
PyPI.

I will contact the current owner of the docx package.


     Richard

On Feb 9, 2013 2:32 AM, "Mike MacCana" <mike.maccana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Lennart. I think that's the issue - although I originally wrote the
> app, the PyPI package is owned by 'jiaaro' according to
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docx/0.1.2.
>
> I think 'jiaaro' was some kind user who decided that the package was
> useful and put it on the chosseshop - but alas that was a long time ago and
> he hasn't kept up to date with github.
>
> How can I change the owner?
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Mike MacCana <mike.maccana at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi PyPI folks,
>> >
>> > A few years ago I made a Python package to make, read and edit Microsoft
>> > Word files - https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx.
>> >
>> > It's been contributed to PyPI, I'm not sure who by, a few years ago -
>> see
>> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docx/0.1.2
>> >
>> > The project has grown unexpectedly popular. Since I'm not really doing
>> much
>> > with Microsoft Office anymore, now has a new maintainer - Steve Canny,
>> who
>> > has volunteered to take over from me.
>> >
>> > As the PyPI package is lagging behind the github version, we'd like to
>> do a
>> > new release soon. Could we please change the owner of
>> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docx package from me to Steve Canny
>> > (scanny at cisco.com)?
>>
>> If you are the Owner, that means that most likely you yourself
>> uploaded it, and you yourself can add and remove owners from the
>> package.
>>
>> //Lennart
>>
>
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