[Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi

[Steve Dower]

I forget the exact names but there's a range of SQL Server packages that also fit in here. Perhaps I get to hear more complaints about those because of where I work :)

But you're right, it may be a small enough problem to handle it that way.

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From: "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io>
Sent: ‎7/‎14/‎2016 17:25
To: "Steve Dower" <steve.dower at python.org>
Cc: "Daniel D. Beck" <daniel at ddbeck.com>; "distutils-sig" <distutils-sig at python.org>
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi



On Jul 14, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:


I'm still keen to find a way to redirect people to useful forks or alternative packages that doesn't require thousands of mentions at conferences for all time ala PIL.




I’m not opposed to this but we’ll want to make sure we’re careful about how we do it. PIL is an easy example where the maintainer is gone and there is a community fork of it. But I struggle to come up with very many more examples of this where there is something that is:


- Popular enough that enough people are tripping over it to make it worth it.
- There is a clear successor (or successors).


Off the top of my head I can only really think of PIL, and *maybe* suds. Unless there’s a lot of these maybe all we really need is a policy for when administrators can/will edit the page to direct people towards a different project or a way to add an admin message directing people to another project.

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Donald Stufft
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