Another high profile example of such a project: PIL.
Was PIL ever on PyPi? Anyway, yup, the solution there was to fork give it s new name -- Pillow was born. CHB 19.04.2016, 00:56, Chris Barker kirjoitti: On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@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 � -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R � � � � � �(206) 526-6959�� voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE ��(206) 526-6329�� fax Seattle, WA �98115 � � ��(206) 526-6317�� main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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