[Catalog-sig] API for uploading packages to PyPI

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 22 Mar, 2013, at 11:25, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 22.03.2013 10:04, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> >
> > On 22 Mar, 2013, at 9:58, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Some links are broken. I added redirects for wiki pages, but it will be better to fix links too.
> > The OAuth link appears to be broken, and that's likely part of the fallout of the wiki.python.org breakin.
> 
> It is broken because of Anatoly's renaming.
> 
> The new name is http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiOauth
> 
> Anatoly: I don't consider such renaming for some perceived level of
> consistency important enough to warrant the breakage you are introducing
> to external links. Please don't !
> 
> I've renamed PyPIOAuth this long before today and fixed all link on the wiki. I don't have any tools to monitor any external links in MoinMoin. It will be nice if you add this request to the internal backlog of tasks for the next order to pydotorg redesign from PSF.


How would the PSF change links on other websites? Changing page names shouldn't be done lightly because this can, and for projects as popular as python almost certainly will, break links on other websites.

Ronald

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