[Distutils] A process for removal of PyPi entries

[Chris Withers]

On 03/06/2013 06:56, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 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. :-)

+1 :-)

Chris

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