Re: [Distutils] Outstanding questions for PEP 541: Package Index Name Retention

2017-12-07 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> I don’t know how much we can or should define “being used”. For instance, every package in existence is going to be downloaded via mirroring, so we can’t go by pure download counts (and some mirrors just use pip to do their downloading) and we’re going to need to interpret the download counts to

Re: [Distutils] Outstanding questions for PEP 541: Package Index Name Retention

2017-12-07 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Nov 29, 2017, at 11:10 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > While getting up to speed on Warehouse I saw how many package transfer > requests are waiting for PEP 541[0] to be accepted, so I thought it > might be helpful to round up what I see as the outstanding

[Distutils] Outstanding questions for PEP 541: Package Index Name Retention

2017-11-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
While getting up to speed on Warehouse I saw how many package transfer requests are waiting for PEP 541[0] to be accepted, so I thought it might be helpful to round up what I see as the outstanding questions. 1) Usage criteria for abandoned projects. > The tricky part there is that "being used"