[Distutils] The mypy package

[Alex Grönholm]

I've fallen into this trap as well, so +1 for the takeover.

It might be a good idea to come up with a standardized process for 
taking over old, unmaintained packages.

16.04.2016, 02:29, Guido van Rossum kirjoitti:
> Brett suggested I ask the kind folks here.
>
> As you may or may not know, there's an old unmaintained "mypy" package 
> on PyPI that attracts a fair amount of downloads from people trying to 
> download mypy the type checker. We then get bug reports and have to 
> explain in our tracker that they have to use "pip install mypy-lang" 
> instead.
>
> Query: 
> https://github.com/python/mypy/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue++dbutils+
>
> That mypy package was last updated in 2011, and it's a quite 
> forgettable combination of copied open-source packages and a little 
> bit of glue code presumably written by the package author. Both Donald 
> and myself have approached the owner (zsp007 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:zsp007 at gmail.com>) but not received any response. Is there a 
> "higher authority" to whom we can appeal this, or are we just stuck 
> with this situation?
>
> As Brett wrote part of the problem, though, is the mypy project has 
> 2244 downloads in the last month which shows it's being used and we 
> don't want to end up in an npm/left_pad situation. (But how many of 
> those downloads are misguided attempts to install mypy-lang?)
>
> One possibility, if people aren't happy with me or Jukka taking over 
> owhership of the old mypy package, would be for someone (not me or 
> Jukka) to take ownership of that package just so they can update the 
> PyPI home page for that package with a prominent note telling people 
> looking for Jukka's type checker to use mypy-lang instead.
>
> -- 
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)
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