I'd like to create a crate contract, which was reserved by swmon , who reserved dozens of crates without using it at all, just as described in this reddit post . What exactly I have to do, to get one of those names? I honestly don't see the point of using a different name just because some idiot thin…

It's not against any crates.io rule, ask swmon to give you the ownership of the crate, he seems willing to do so from the crate's page. WIP. Contact me if you want to use this name!

Report back if you do get the name transferred. It is good to keep track of which of the squatters you can have any hope of getting a crate name from.

The problem with swmon is that they don’t provide any contact details. This 6 month old attempt appears to have had no success.

IMHO, a crate name shall have a lifetime too :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: (e.g. a year without any code upload)

I think having a lifetime will disadvantage some crates. I'm thinking of crates that implement a standard algorithm, have solid tests and are mature and rarely need any updates. I've also wanted to use a crate name that was in use: retest (regular expression test). My solution was to keep the name …

There are a lot of crate names that have been "reserved" by people such as swmon who spam uploaded empty crates. IIRC there was some discussion about tackling this but I don't know if it went any where. The current policy on squatting is We do not have any policies to define 'squatting', and so w…

See also the following proposals: [image] [Pre-RFC] Crates expropriation policy Summary Define a policy for transferring crates ownership in the case if existing owners can not be reached. Motivation Most of the published crates have bus factor of 1, including crates with “generic” name…

Not sure if it's the right topic, but I want to also share my concern about a single namespace. As other commented above, it have realife problems (discoverabilty of 'creative names'). One of the thing I fear is that we will have some crates not available on crates.io because the name is already t…

In the last few months, we already had discussions in internals forum about namespacing and both discussions went into "loops" without reaching any consensus. [image] [Pre-RFC]: Packages as Namespaces There’s been a lot of chatter about adding namespaces to crates.io recently, so apolog…

[image] dylan.dpc: Given the current scenario, the only way out is to contact the (squatted) crate owner and see if they agree to transfer the crate to you. If they, say no there isn’t much you can do about it (other than picking another name). I think the thing that frustrates people most is…

I'd like to use a crate name, which was reserved on crates.io

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rockmen1 March 13, 2019, 10:49am 5

IMHO, a crate name shall have a lifetime too (e.g. a year without any code upload)

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I'd like to use a crate name, which was reserved on crates.io

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