[Distutils] Name arbitration on PyPI

[Alex Grönholm]

Another high profile example of such a project: PIL.

19.04.2016, 00:56, Chris Barker kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Ian Cordasco 
> <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com <mailto:graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >> 1.  PyYAML is a package that would be de-registered in such a scheme.  It
>
>     > and you don't think ANYONE would be willing to take on the miniscule amount
>     > of work to maintain the name? Plus there would be any number of
>     other
>     > schemes for determining whether a project name is abandoned.
>
>     I have in fact offered but the author refuses to accept help from
>     anyone. They're also the author of the C library (libyaml) and they do
>     not maintain that either. It's actually quite frustrating as someone
>     who wants to fix some of the numerous bugs in the library + improve it
>     and add support for YAML 1.2 which is years old at this point.
>
>
> Interesting third case I hadn't considered -- the original author is 
> still "active", but not actually maintaining the software or accepting 
> help. I don't think there is anything PyPi policy can do about that -- 
> too bad.
>
> Time for a fork?
>
> -CHB
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