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I've been on the other side of a similar conversation, that eventually got me the name I wanted after around 30 days. This was around five years ago, when there

by pscanf 8y ago

I've been on the other side of a similar conversation, that eventually got me the name I wanted after around 30 days. This was around five years ago, when there were still no scoped packages and the ecosystem was surging in popularity. I guess in the previous years people had been creating test packages and forgetting about them, and no doubt some were just squatting popular names. In my case the package with the name I wanted was empty and inactive, and there was a human check before it being handed over.

binarymax 8y ago
Yes I had guessed the policy is to prevent squatting. But it shouldn't apply to packages that actually have code sitting in them - anyone could have seen my package had a bunch of work gone into it, even if it hadn't been updated in a while. If it's a legit package, no matter how old it is, then the ownership should stick to the original author by default in perpetuity.