On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 7:50 PM, Emma Tosch <eto...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Apologies if this is not the proper channel for the following question. > > I have a project that I would like to post on PyPI that clashes with an > existing project that I believe may be abandoned ( > https://pypi.org/project/toybox/#description). According to this PEP ( > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/) it appears that the > appropriate course of action is to attempt to contact the owner of this > namespace and find out if they will transfer ownership to me. In the > section of the PEP that discusses prior art, there is a reference to cc'ing > folks from npm when analogous issues arise over in JS land. It isn't clear > to me from this PEP or its resolution what the proper procedure for > pursuing ownership of a claimed, but possibly abandoned namespace is for > PyPI. Is there an email address I should cc when contacting the namespace > owner? How does one initiate an official request for an abandoned namespace? > > Thanks! > Emma > > -- > > Emma Tosch > PhD Candidate, College of Information & Computer Sciences > University of Massachusetts amhersteto...@cs.umass.edu > http://cs.umass.edu/~etosch > > > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/HSUNHFMJO34DM25FE6AEOKJKKVI6CFGI/ Hi Emma! Thanks for reaching out. I suggest you file an issue at https://github.com/pypa/warehouse for a PEP 541 request. That'll probably be the best place. Best, Pradyun (on mobile, can't remove quote above, sorry!)
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