On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Noah Kantrowitz <[email protected]> wrote: [..] > > I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is > effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come > beyond the days of "noah (at) coderanger [dot] net" and all those silly > tricks that were popular not too long ago. If an author is excessively > concerned about spam, they shouldn't put their email in author_email. Is that > field mandatory now or something?
No it's not mandatory. > Softpedia is a little annoying with the emails, but I've found them useful > personally (along with versiontracker) > when looking for OS X software before. Freshmeat is a similar index of FOSS > projects, and I've definitely > used that before. Is there some reason we are objecting to including PyPI > data in other software catalogs? If > it makes it a tiny bit easier to find Python software, I'm all for it. You can't compare Freshmeat and Softpedia. Freshmeat is a legitimate index developer manually fills, whereas Softpedia is bot-based and just tries to attract people to make make money. I don't mind having PyPI projects at Softpedia, but I think we should prevent this automatic mail sending they set up. It got worse lately. But I said I would drop it, so... :) > > --Noah > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
