On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 18:40, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Ask those who do not upload why they don't upload, and see if we can fix > it. > 2. Ask those who do not want to upload why they don't provide a download URL.
Out of a total of 8522 packages on PyPI, there are 203 packages (2.4%) whose latest release does not provide either a package on PyPI, nor a download url. Of these 16 does not provide any contact data. There are, as far as I can figure out, around 150 individuals to contact. That's enough people that a questionnaire might be useful, with answer that we guess are going to be the common ones. Like: Why did you not upload to PyPI, you bum? 1. I didn't know you could upload to PyPI. 2. I don't want anyone but my servers to have the downloads, thank you. [Why?] 3. My companies policy does not allow it. [Why?] 4. The distutils "sdist upload" procedure doesn't work for me. [Why?] 5. Other. [What?] But there is a download URL metadata. You could have at least filled that in, lazy person! 1. I didn't know you could. 2. Other [What?] Is there significant interest in doing this? In that case, what answer options should we have? -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
