[Catalog-sig] API for uploading packages to PyPI

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>wrote:

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> On 22 Mar, 2013, at 11:25, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
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>> On 22.03.2013 10:04, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>> > On 22 Mar, 2013, at 9:58, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
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>> >> Some links are broken. I added redirects for wiki pages, but it will
>> be better to fix links too.
>> > The OAuth link appears to be broken, and that's likely part of the
>> fallout of the wiki.python.org breakin.
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>> It is broken because of Anatoly's renaming.
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>> The new name is http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiOauth
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>> Anatoly: I don't consider such renaming for some perceived level of
>> consistency important enough to warrant the breakage you are introducing
>> to external links. Please don't !
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> I've renamed PyPIOAuth this long before today and fixed all link on the
> wiki. I don't have any tools to monitor any external links in MoinMoin. It
> will be nice if you add this request to the internal backlog of tasks for
> the next order to pydotorg redesign from PSF.
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> How would the PSF change links on other websites? Changing page names
> shouldn't be done lightly because this can, and for projects as popular as
> python almost certainly will, break links on other websites.
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1. I am the editor of my changes. Not that PSF guy who owns all the stuff
out there and makes himself important by "taking responsibility" over what
I do. If I had the information about external sources linking to this page,
I'd considered contacting these source for update. I mean written the
letter here earlier. =)
2. The change requested it to enable tracking of incoming sources for
MoinMoin pages. It is exactly for the purpose you mentioned - to remove any
fear, uncertainty and despair from people editing the wiki that their
change may or may not break anything.  Many wiki pages don't have any
external references at all and should be reorganized to make somewhat
logical structure from that pile of data.
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