[Distutils] A process for removal of PyPi entries

[Lennart Regebro]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 05/31/2013 09:18 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> I'd be OK with after six months automatically removing packages that
>> has only one owner/maintainer, and that owner/maintainer has no other
>> packages, and the package has no available downloads, and no contact
>> information on either package nor registered user.
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> Why all the extras:  if somebody wants to claim a project name, but can't
> upload a release for six months, they should just lose.  I would actually
> be willing to have that cut down to a day:  trying to grab the name
> before registering / uploading a release should result in loss of the claim.

Because it's automatic. I don't trust computers. ;-)
But yeah, it could be shorter.

//Lennart