[Catalog-sig] Mandatory Reset of PyPI Passwords

[Jesse Noller]

Direct email has a better conversion rate, that's basic marketing :)

On Feb 13, 2013, at 7:27 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 13.02.2013 13:13, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Richard Jones <richard <at> python.org> writes:
>>> 3. send email to all registered users indicating that all users must
>>> change their password and a forced reset will take place in a week's
>>> time for users who have not done so, and
>> 
>> What about users who've already changed their password?
> 
> Depending on the number of users you might rather want to use
> a banner on the website and a blog post instead of emailing
> them directly.
> 
> Given the >11k users on the Python wiki, we chose not to send
> out emails... just think of the number of emails with questions
> you'd get and have to answer.
> 
> Regarding the timing, I'd use a longer period. People don't
> do releases every two weeks and you normally don't check in
> to PyPI to search for a package.
> 
> -- 
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
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