[Distutils] What's up with PyPi maintenance?

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 at 09:42 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Probably not the right list but:
>
> There are a number of folks having issue siwth new PyPi pacakges not being
> found by search:
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/412/my-package-doesnt-show-up-in-search
>
> clearly issues have been posted to the project, but has been going on a
> for a while, with seemingly no action, or response from PyPi
> developers/maintainers.
>

Donald can correct me where I'm wrong, but from my understanding ...


>
> a) Is there somewhere else we can ping the right fols?
>

This is as good as any.


>
> b) Is there a serious lack of folks available to address such issues?
>

Yes.


>
> if (b), should we make a concerted effort to recruit new folks to assist
> PyPi maintenance / development???
>

There are been a couple of calls for help with Warehouse which will replace
PyPI as soon as it's finished: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse (the
current PyPI code base is really antiquated and from my understanding a
real burden to work with at this point).

-Brett


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> Thanks,
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> -CHB
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