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What qualifies as "a large number of packages"? As was posted in another thread, it seems like the packages of user https://crates.io/users/swmon https://crates
by dastbe 6y ago
What qualifies as "a large number of packages"? As was posted in another thread, it seems like the packages of user https://crates.io/users/swmon https://crates.io/users/swmon would qualify?
Alternative to just removing them, would the crates team be more open to transferring ownership of these packages?
- steveklabnik 6y agoThe focus in that sentence is not "a large number of packages," but the "in an automated fashion." Plus, that's only 100 packages. There are people who legitimately maintain more crates than that. > would the crates team be more open to transferring ownership of these packages? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2614 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2614
- dastbe 6y agoYeah, it's not obvious what the person I linked's intent is. Resale? I'm pessimistic that the above mechanism would work but I'm glad that rust is thinking about it. fwiw I also don't think namespacing necessarily solves this problem, it just shoves the squatting problem up a level.