PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers, or you'll lose them

Re:PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers... by git-pull on Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:57PM (#16001745)

As someone who just patched two abandoned projects to work with Django 2.0, I can say it's incredibly annoying when maintainer's are MIA for extended times.

That means, now I have to divert time to maintaining my own fork.

The funny thing is I'm the person doing the heavy lifting. I make the fixes, write the tests, make sure CI passes and older versions don't break, even update the change log. Everything to assure stuff is in order. All they have to do is accept the pull request and publish the package.

In my specific situation though, I was able to merge the PR to master. But had no PyPI access to publish the package.

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Re:PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers... by erikpukinskis on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:48PM (#16042864)

So you feel maintainers should be responsive within 28 days, or lose their packages?

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Re:PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers... by borplk on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:27AM (#16003566)

What does MIA stand for?

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Re:PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers... by Spacemolte on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:55AM (#16003641)

Missing In Action I believe. Kind of like AFK (away from keyboard)

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