Re: question about claiming potentially abandoned namespaces on PyPI

On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 7:50 PM, Emma Tosch <[email protected]> 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
>
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> Emma Tosch
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> University of Massachusetts [email protected] http://cs.umass.edu/~etosch
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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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