I think package owners have a responsibility to be contactable, but that the time-frames should be long to allow for the fact people do go off the grid for valid reasons sometimes. I'd suggest something like 2 months is a reasonable interval to allow; if contact via email and available social media fail after 2 months, then broken packages without evidence of maintenance in the source repository should be moveable.
Inactive, abandoned and nonfunctional packages could be defined as: -- Owner uncontactable via email or social media for 2 months -- No alternative representative for the package identified -- No evidence of maintenance in the source repository for 1 year (?) -- Package is not installable via pip install on 2.7 or 3.x This is as distinct from the squatter clause, which is really about never-even-started, never-did-anything registrations. If the original owner wants to keep the name, then I think they get to keep it regardless of the requesting parties desire to get a hold of it. Onus should be on the requesting party to supply evidence of the criteria via the issue tracker. Making things too complex? Maybe... On 16 October 2014 15:21, Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> wrote: > I am currently trying to decide what to do in the case of this request: > https://sourceforge.net/p/pypi/support-requests/420/ > > It is remarkably similar to the request which only just recently got me > into trouble, with the slight difference that there may be a trademark > issue which I am definitely not able to address. Therefore I am extremely > hesitant to actually grant the request. It certainly falls under the final > statement in the written-up policy: > > "Transfer will not be performed where an individual or project wishes to > take ownership of a name because they feel the current owner has left it > stagnating, or even broken, in the absence of the above transfer > conditions." > > Your thoughts, as always, are welcome. > > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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