[Distutils] A process for removal of PyPi entries

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 2, 2013, at 7:21 PM, PJ Eby wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm -1 on anything that doesn't involve at least a minimal level of human
>>> involvement (possibly excepting an initial clean up exercise for projects
>>> with no author email)
>> 
>> This is why I basically said I'm OK with automatic deletion after a
>> time if there are no downloadable packages and no contact information.
>> Otherwise the owner should be contacted.
> 
> Some people are saying "files uploaded" vs. "downloadable packages".
> I don't like the "files uploaded" criterion because IMO it's a
> perfectly valid use case to list a package on PyPI which is only
> available via external revision control.
> 

Sorry, if you haven't had time to follow lately we have already begun deprecating this system. It is entirely reasonable to start making plans for the case when this will no longer be an option.

> Heck, a project that only has planning documents and a reasonably
> active mailing list should still qualify for PyPI listing, else the
> original distutils-sig would not have qualified for reserving the name
> "distutils" on PyPI, before its first release.  ;-)

If a reasonably active project doesn't have anything to show after six months, I think we have different definitions of 'reasonably active'.

--Noah


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