I am trying to understand the rules for “name squatting” and "reassignment.
Context: I have a project I’ve put a significant amount of personal time into developing (“cumulative days” over the course of “weeks” of effort) and the project has reached a point where my next steps include writing up documentation and publishing to PyPI.
I thought I did due-diligence and searched PyPI for the name before naming everything in the source tree accordingly, and obviously did not find anything. It wasn’t until today when I manually edited the PyPI URL that I was able to find an existing package with the name (merely double-checking before moving forward with a package publish.)
Looking at the existing ‘package’ it was first uploaded in 2020, has not seen any activity since, the sdist and wheel appear to be empty (except for a single, empty directory entry), and the homepage address for the package links to a github user profile not a project website/repo/etc.
Does this package qualify as “name squatting”?
If so, can I get the package reassigned to myself for use for a “tangible” project with “substance” to it?
Also, loosely related. Who are we meant to contact for a squatting request? Seems like something that would have a support page, or, maybe an email address that should be used.
Thanks!
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