[Distutils] Taking over an inactive package

[Daniele Sluijters]

Hey,

I'm not aware of any MIA procedures or teams like Debian has them.
They try to track down inactive maintainers and can eventually orphan
a package, essentially releasing it and allowing someone else to take
over.

However, https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopDev mentions in the ToDO:
 * documented procedures for "taking over" entries should the original
owner of the entry go away (and any required system support)

Seems to suggest there is some kind of way/procedure but I can't find
any other reference to it.

On 2 September 2014 19:08, Bence Nagy <bence at underyx.me> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I've submitted a pull request on GitHub[0] for the package
> Flask-Redis[1] 6 months ago. It didn't contain anything of real
> importance, but I haven't heard back from the developer since then.
> I've contacted him both via Twitter and email, to no avail. Is there
> any way to take over the package in these cases? I figured this would
> be a small enough package to start my open source career off with.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/rhyselsmore/flask-redis/pull/7
> [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-Redis
>
> Excuse me if this is irrelevant (as this list usually seems to
> accomodate for more technical talk), #python directed me here with my
> question.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Bence Nagy (Underyx)
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Daniele Sluijters