[Catalog-sig] Mandatory Reset of PyPI Passwords

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 13.02.2013 13:36, Jesse Noller wrote:
> Direct email has a better conversion rate, that's basic marketing :)

Indeed, and if you can handle the load of support emails,
that's certainly a better way to do this. It depends on how many
account there are on PyPI.

I'm just mentioning this, because we had to make the same
decision a while ago and decided against doing emails.

> 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.
>>
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