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The author of the article this thread is about is litterally pushing further down that particular slope: > And if your package gets established and has people
by pyrale 4y ago
The author of the article this thread is about is litterally pushing further down that particular slope:
> And if your package gets established and has people regularly using it, you have some responsibility not to mess with those users. If you want to make backwards-incompatible changes, for example, communicate them and bump the major version number. If you want to stop maintaining the package, post an announcement about it and be willing to hand over to someone else to continue work.
- donaldstufft 4y agoNot really, none of those things are things he is suggesting PyPI should do, but rather social expectations that come from being a maintainer of a large project.
- nomdep 4y agoSure, but they have the same implicit “… or else”, meaning losing the capacity to publish again on PyPI until they “fix their attitude”