[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pissing off the maintainers off packages that currently rely on
>> external hosting by telling them they have to change their release
>> processes if they want to keep releasing software on PyPI and have
>> their users actually be able to download it is *not* a good idea,
>> especially when we're about to ask them to upgrade their build chains
>> for other reasons (including both security and reliability).
>
> Who are these people by the way?

I can answer that question now. I have a list of 2651 emails of people
listed as maintainers or authors of software that doesn't have
releases on PyPI.
This is a very inclusive list, so it's lists *all* maintainers and
authors of *all* versions of a package, if that package has no files
on PyPI.
And there are duplicate people, of course, although the emails are unique.

I've suggested before that we start by sending out emails to these
people, but I have to admit that the list is *much* longer than I
thought, and that we might want to limit it to those who actually have
packages that have been accessed during the last X months or so.

//Lennart