2 ms·

This is a shame. I used that process quite a few times to pick up abandoned package and organization names. NPM really needs a plan to mitigate zombie packages

This is a shame. I used that process quite a few times to pick up abandoned package and organization names. NPM really needs a plan to mitigate zombie packages if we can no longer petition for them. I can't tell from this Twitter thread lacking nuance if there was a support rep screwup, if the package owner had bad contact info on the package, or what exactly happened.

q-rews 5y ago
Indeed it feels like this could be somewhat resolved by: - having npm contact the user - placing the package in a no-owner (and deprecated) state for a while From the instructions it seems that you can just contact npm and say "I emailed the owner 3 months ago, got no answer" and have it within a few hours. I'm also sad to see this process go because I used it at least once before.