Account recovery

[jeanas (Jean Abou Samra)]

Please read the previous discussions on this topic first.

PyPI account recovery process triaging on halt

Hello, I’ve crashed my phone in early October and I lost my 2FA codes and access to PyPI. So I added an issue in Issues · pypi/support · GitHub but it’s been now over 3 months and I have not seen any activity in the issue tracker since late September of last year - the issue tracker mentions that it can take a while but it’s been on full halt for almost 4 months at this point. That has put an halt of any updates of my projects on PyPI, which is annoying to me, but not the end of the world (un…

Is PEP 541 still the correct solution?

Background PEP 541 introduced an approval system for name transfers on PyPi. My understanding it that it was a response to the increasing number of zombie projects and typo squatters. In the former case, when unable to contact the owner of a dead project, a user can request an admin override and a name transfer. In the latter case, PyPi blocks projects whose names are similar to other projects to prevent the uploading of malware which is downloaded when users make a typo, a user can point to a …