Hi, my application to get an organisation for my company was accepted recently and I was eager to start publishing packages under my company’s namespace.
However, maybe I’m missing something, but it doesn’t seem to work as I expected.
I expected to get a namespace “abilian” (name of my company) and to be able to publish packages in this namespace (e.g. abilian/project1, abilian/project2, etc.).
However, trying to publish my first package (under my new organisation), I get the following error “This project name has already been used. Choose a different project name.”.
So I guess there is no namespacing after all ?
Or did I miss something ?
I think namespacing is really important to prevent namesquatting or even unwilling name collision. Is there any plan to implement it or has this ship already sailed ?
It looks like only about half the requests are approved each time. Is there a lot of spam? Are there common mistakes that make the request invalid? Are there tricky things you have to remember to look for during review? Would be interesting to see your notes about this at the end.
There is a bit of spam, but the largest issue is what @EWDurbin said here:
There are many, many applications for organizations that have names with corresponding domains, but the user that requested it just has a @gmail.com email address on their account. Since this doesn’t prove any affiliation with the given organization, we must follow up with the user to get them to add and verify an email address with a matching domain, if possible, which is time consuming.
There are also:
instances when large, for-profit companies have requested free ‘community’ organizations (either intentionally or accidentally), and we need to follow up with them
community/educational/government projects which are generally harder to approve because they may not have a verifiable domain, or verifiable affiliations
plenty of typos / user confusion / domains that don’t resolve or seem unrelated to the organization
Does that mean that some of those requests are going from “pending” to some other status (“awaiting reply”?) that isn’t reflected here?
The implication I got from these posts was that a large chunk of requests are being closed for whatever reason. But maybe they’re still open, just need more input.
seeing tunnel’s end