[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 16:30 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 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.

There are also packages which have some (older) release files on pypi
and newer ones outside (e.g. "lockfile" with 78256 downloads from 
code.google.com).  You didn't include such in your 2651 emails, or did you?

holger