Questions about "Squatting" and "Reclamation" (original) (raw)

September 13, 2024, 11:21pm 1

I am trying to understand the rules for “name squatting” and "reassignment.

Context: I have a project I’ve put a significant amount of personal time into developing (“cumulative days” over the course of “weeks” of effort) and the project has reached a point where my next steps include writing up documentation and publishing to PyPI.

I thought I did due-diligence and searched PyPI for the name before naming everything in the source tree accordingly, and obviously did not find anything. It wasn’t until today when I manually edited the PyPI URL that I was able to find an existing package with the name (merely double-checking before moving forward with a package publish.)

Looking at the existing ‘package’ it was first uploaded in 2020, has not seen any activity since, the sdist and wheel appear to be empty (except for a single, empty directory entry), and the homepage address for the package links to a github user profile not a project website/repo/etc.

Does this package qualify as “name squatting”?

If so, can I get the package reassigned to myself for use for a “tangible” project with “substance” to it?

Also, loosely related. Who are we meant to contact for a squatting request? Seems like something that would have a support page, or, maybe an email address that should be used.

Thanks!

bwoodsend (Brénainn Woodsend) September 13, 2024, 11:32pm 2

wilson0x4d (Shaun Wilson)

September 13, 2024, 11:33pm 3

Aye, just found that requests funnel through github issues currently:

Thank you for the response :smile: I’ll continue researching and post back here anything useful for others searching these discussions with the same question(s).

bwoodsend (Brénainn Woodsend) September 13, 2024, 11:34pm 4

As you’ll probably notice, there’s an enormous backlog so I’m afraid that you’ll be waiting a while if you do make the transfer request.

sinoroc (sinoroc) September 14, 2024, 8:11am 5

@wilson0x4d You did not find any email address for the probable authors/maintainers of this project on PyPI? Maybe in the setup.py in the sdist.