Get this fork going!

[edgarrmondragon]

• Merge more improvements for popular issues (e.g. Use monotonic time litl/backoff#149)
• Welcome more maintainers
• Go through the PEP 514¹ process? We need to decide if publishing under a different name is acceptable, or whether we should try to get a hold of the backoff name in PyPI

Footnotes

1. https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#abandoned-projects ↩

[edgarrmondragon]

I guess we could just not go through the PEP 541 process and publish this under a different name.

[edgarrmondragon]

FWIW

• PEP 541 Request: backoff pypi/support#7364

[SamStephens]

I'd like the project to follow PEP 541 if at all feasible, providing that continuity for users is great.

I'm keen to contribute as a maintainer, but: I have limited time for this as part of my job; whilst I've been programming in Python for a few years ago, I've spent most of my life as a developer working in other languages, and there's a lot of Python idioms and practices I'm still probably ignorant of (for example, I stayed away from that async pull earlier because I don't know Python async idioms well enough).

[edgarrmondragon]

Thanks for the offer @SamStephens!

For the time being, maintenance is not a big burden. Mostly because engagement is obviously low, but once contributions start coming in I'll start sending out invitations

I hope the PEP 541 process goes quickly 🤞.

[edgarrmondragon]

A bit of bad news:

The original owner of the backoff has replied back to the PEP 541 request that they do not wish to transfer their project 🤷‍♂️

That means we'll have to publish the package under a new name. Let's poll some naming options:

1. python-backoff
2. backoff3
3. "I don't care"
4. "What about ____?"

So if you're subscribed to or come by this issue, please feel free to comment 🙂

Links

• PEP 541 Request: backoff pypi/support#7364 (comment)

[Olegt0rr]

I wrote an email to the author of the library, hoping that he would respond and help us.

Update:

550 5.2.1 The email account that you tried to reach is inactive. For more information, go to https://support.google.com/mail/?p=DisabledUser 00721157ae682-7864c6f49e3sor9292207b3.17 - gsmtp

[artem-ilin]

Sad to hear the original owner refused.

I think python-backoff is a good non-confusing name.
backoff3 on the other hand is only good as long as you have version 3, I think there is no need to make such a restriction from the start.

[SamStephens]

Yeah, it's disappointing about the original owner, I'm surprised, I thought the owner had basically abandoned the original package and greenlit this one.

Another vote for python-backoff here, no reason to tie ourselves to a specific Python version.

[edgarrmondragon]

Got a fresh RC!

https://pypi.org/project/python-backoff/