Re: question about claiming potentially abandoned namespaces on PyPI

Let me note upfront that I'm not anyone who has power in the Python
community, on PyPI or distutils-sig. However, I can bring my example,
confirming that what you describe works.

It may be difficult, and I'm tempted to say, this is usually the case
(just a gut feeling, really), that you'll find it difficult to contact
the owners of a package on PyPI. I had the necessity, though, and it
worked out. Here's how:

- I tried to find the owner of the "pyclean" package. There was no
repository link, nor an email on PyPI in the package description, etc.
- I tried to use the same username on GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab,
also for Twitter.
- I wasn't immediately lucky, so I did a web search with the (I think)
name (or username) combined with the keyword "python". I was lucky!
- I found the person, I found the corresponding user name on GitHub
- I openen a GitHub issue on an (unrelated) repository [1] of him, and
contacted him via Twitter in addition; after a few days he responded.
- I explained my plan for the Open Source project and he agreed to
hand over the package name.
- Following the recommandations of the "pyroma" package I proposed to
only _add_ me as an owner, i.e. _not_ replace him.
- I also added two other owners, so in feature it will be easier to
contact one of the package owner.

Hope that explanation helps,
Peter

[1] https://github.com/felixcarmona/pyhttp/issues/2

P.S.: Let me express my sincere thanks Felix Carmona again for the
helpful cooperation!

Am So., 5. Mai 2019 um 01:49 Uhr schrieb Emma Tosch <[email protected]>:
>
> 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 offi
 cial request for an abandoned namespace?
>
> Thanks!
> Emma
>
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