[Distutils] A process for removal of PyPi entries

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:21 AM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> 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.
>
> 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.  ;-)

Absolutely. Which gets us back to the "nothing to download, no way of
contacting" criteria I originally proposed. :-)

//Lennart