[Distutils] Name arbitration on PyPI (was: The mypy package)

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> 1.  PyYAML is a package that would be de-registered in such a scheme.
> It
>


> > and you don't think ANYONE would be willing to take on the miniscule
> amount
> > of work to maintain the name? Plus there would be any number of other
> > schemes for determining whether a project name is abandoned.
>
> I have in fact offered but the author refuses to accept help from
> anyone. They're also the author of the C library (libyaml) and they do
> not maintain that either. It's actually quite frustrating as someone
> who wants to fix some of the numerous bugs in the library + improve it
> and add support for YAML 1.2 which is years old at this point.


Interesting third case I hadn't considered -- the original author is still
"active", but not actually maintaining the software or accepting help. I
don't think there is anything PyPi policy can do about that -- too bad.

Time for a fork?

-CHB



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