Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

2016-04-20 Thread Steve Dower
Thanks for the vouch, we are indeed both current Microsoft employees. I stopped using my work email for Python stuff when our server started corrupting URLs to add a phishing/malware filter. Feel free to email the pyt...@microsoft.com address attached to the Microsoft user and I'll reply to you

Re: [Distutils] Parked Names in PyPI under user rodmena

2016-04-20 Thread Richard Jones
Thanks Steve, it's all good! I have met you, but just the once, and my memory is terrible :-) On 20 April 2016 at 22:14, Steve Dower wrote: > Thanks for the vouch, we are indeed both current Microsoft employees. I > stopped using my work email for Python stuff when our server started > corruptin

Re: [Distutils] Name arbitration on PyPI - how about administrative abandonment/replacement meta-data

2016-04-20 Thread Ronny Pfannschmidt
Am 20.04.2016 um 00:38 schrieb Chris Barker: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt > > wrote: > > Instead of overtaking, > how about clearly marking packages as abandoned/maintained clearly > pointing out the mark was imposed by

Re: [Distutils] Name arbitration on PyPI - how about administrative abandonment/replacement meta-data

2016-04-20 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/2016 04:36 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote: > its not given lightly, and it shouldn't be easy to weasel out of it. > Actually a noop release is a good indicator that the mark is > well-deserved and should be keept. Making an effort to remove a