[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower  added the comment:

Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being 
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered 
for distutils.

If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and 
reopen it. If you believe it still requires a fix, most likely the issue should 
be re-reported at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Antti Haapala]

Antti Haapala added the comment:

I am the current maintainer of python-Levenshtein package on PyPI/Github, but I 
wrote about 0 % of the functionality; almost everything excepting bug fixes and 
Python 3 compatibility was written by the original author David Necas and 
possibly contributors; now I am contacted as the author of the package, a.k.a 
why did you code it this way - I do not know.

Currently PyPI does seem to have a field for both maintainer and author if I 
enter PKG-INFO data manually; these both would also be available on the page 
and JSON metadata etc. I'd really want to be able to generate the correct 
PKG-INFO automatically from the setup() arguments.

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo added the comment:

Again, if PyPI can display both pieces of information, then it will be okay to 
send both.  The change should not break third-party indexes like devpi-server.

Is there a PyPI ticket for this?

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Donald Stufft]

Donald Stufft added the comment:

PyPI should already handle it fine, and Warehouse certainly does.

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Stefan Krah]

Changes by Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org:


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[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo added the comment:

If PyPI is changed to display both author and maintainer info, I’m okay with 
changing distutils to send both.

(Sourceforge link is dead :()

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

Previous issues like this include issue 962772 (from 5/2004) and issue 3686 
(from 8/2008).  Copying the nosy lists from those issues.

This issue affects me also because I maintain a project that I did not author.  
However, PyPI lists me as the author because of distutils's maintainer/author 
replacement logic when generating PKG-INFO.

This issue has come up before, and PyPI continues to list maintainers as 
authors because of it.  Whether or not we start sending both pieces of data, 
can PyPI perhaps be updated to display Contact instead of Author when 
Metadata-Version 1.1 is used?  This seems better to me because distutils is not 
actually sending the author but rather contact information in this case (method 
get_contact())?

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/63b45c959a2a/Lib/distutils/dist.py#l1025

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[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

I also created issue 16403 to update the distutils docs to say that distutils 
lists the maintainer as the author in PKG-INFO when maintainer is provided.

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[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah added the comment:

Would that result in displaying both author and maintainer info on the PyPI 
page?  For what cases is it useful?

It gives due credit to the original author if another person maintains
the package. I think it's a matter of common courtesy not to suppress
author information (or worse, list the maintainer as the author).

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

 Whether or not we start sending both pieces of data, can PyPI perhaps be 
 updated to display Contact instead of Author when Metadata-Version 1.1 is 
 used?

I filed an issue on PyPI's issue tracker for this suggestion here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=513503aid=3583924group_id=66150

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo added the comment:

Would that result in displaying both author and maintainer info on the PyPI 
page?  For what cases is it useful?

Questions about author/maintainer come up from time to time.  The way I 
understand it, the goal of these fields is to give contact information to the 
users; if only author is specified, distutils sends that info to PyPI, but if 
maintainer is given, distutils uses that and ignores author.  That way, credit 
can be preserved with the author field, and the current contact is given by 
maintainer.  If this thinking is correct (PEPs aren’t explicit about that), 
then only one of maintaine and author should be sent.

What do you think?

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[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Richard Jones]

New submission from Richard Jones:

The attached patch includes the maintainer information in the data sent to PyPI 
in a register or upload submission.

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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils2
files: maintainer.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 171774
nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, richard, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Include maintainer information in register/upload
type: behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27383/maintainer.patch

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