> To me, a package "publisher" is basically just the author. At work, we keep on calling the CI stage which uploads the build artifacts to Artifactory the "pub

> To me, a package "publisher" is basically just the author. At work, we keep on calling the CI stage which uploads the build artifacts to Artifactory the "publish" stage. Maybe that's the wrong terminology but I've got used to it. And if "publish" is what the stage is doing, it kind of makes sense to call it a "publisher". Maybe that's wrong, especially in the context of PyPI, but it doesn't sound wrong to me.