[Zope-dev] Proposal: cleaning up the content-type story

[Thomas Lotze]

Fred Drake wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu>
> wrote:
>> If someone would document srichter's magic grant-all-powerful PyPi
>> script, I'd run it :)
> 
> That's a horrible thing to do to somebody!
> 
> Note that I'm not smiling, either.  It's too easy to grant people access
> to way too many packages that way.  Somebody ran it for me, without my
> knowledge, and I learned about a lot of packages I'd never heard of
> before.  That just makes PyPI harder to use when updating something I *am*
> actually a maintainer for.

I think the issue this points at is actually with usability of PyPI. There
shouldn't be this miles-long list of packages on the right when logged in
in the first place.

OTOH, even with good usability I'd rather not have rights for packages I'm
not interested in, just to be able to deny responsibility if anything goes
wrong with one of them. Having rights for all packages involved with ZTK
refactorings would be helpful, though.

-- 
Thomas