[Distutils] The mypy package

[Guido van Rossum]

Oh well. I wonder if offering money would change the situation.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:

> Hi Guido,
>
> Because this sort of thing has come up a lot in the past, and because I've
> copped trouble for mishandling it in the past, I took the trouble of
> writing up a formal description of how I handle these sorts of issues:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elum7ENjQb0dLB4ATfYNtnXYVLUzsKacc0VWnHHJb2A/edit?usp=sharing
>
> I believe Donald follows the same, or a very similar procedure.
>
> In short, all that can be done has been done, from my perspective. Someone
> has published their module, and regardless of any opinion of it, or desire
> to also use that name, I have to respect that they published first. In the
> absence of explicit consent from them to do anything, my hands are tied.
> I've taken unilateral action in the past to my personal detriment.
>
> Of course, once I'm no longer a PyPI admin (I look forward to the day so
> very much) someone else will have to make these decisions.
>
>
>      Richard
>
>
> On 16 April 2016 at 09:29, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>> 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) 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)
>>
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