PEP 541: transfer ownership of invalid `vision`

[julien-c]

Project to be claimed

vision: https://pypi.org/project/vision

Your PyPI username

chaumond: https://pypi.org/user/chaumond

Reasons for the request

Package appears to be invalid in the sense of PEP 541:

project is name squatting (package has no functionality or is empty)

Project has a single release with no files associated.

Maintenance or replacement?

At Hugging Face we publish the popular Transformers library for Natural language processing:

• https://pypi.org/project/transformers/
• https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

We would like to publish a new package for computer vision under the vision name.

Contact and additional research

Contacted the current owner via email.

[yeraydiazdiaz]

Hi @julien-c, on 2020-04-29 23:27:14 PyPI user dhyahoo created a new release. The description reads:

This package defines the Verizon Media internal machine Vision packaging namespace. This package is present in the Public PyPi repositories to prevent package conflicts between Open Source Python packages and Verizon Media internal packages.

Uploading empty packages to PyPI for this purpose is not allowed, however, we do have a list of disallowed names for different purposes like preventing typo-squatting or trademark violations. I'm not sure if this case would fall under that category, @pypa/pypi-moderators any thoughts?

Tagging who I believe the owner's GitHub user @dwighthubbard.

[pradyunsg]

I think we should consider this an invalid project.

I do not think namesquatting on PyPI, to prevent conflicts with a company's internal packages is reasonable, and I think we should actively discourage the same.

[aaugustin]

If I understand correctly:

• the purpose for which the empty vision package was created isn't allowed — and, in fact, should be discouraged;
• after six weeks, no dissenting opinion was expressed.

May I kindly request that you proceed with the transfer to user chaumond?

[yeraydiazdiaz]

There have been no further releases or replies from the owner, the transfer is now complete. Apologies for the delay.

[aaugustin]

Thank you!