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by ctoth 1123 days ago
> There needs to be some extra step, be it a fee, identity confirmation, manual moderation/approval, or something else. I'm sure the PyPA devs/maintainers have ideas.

When I was younger, I always thought computing was so incredibly cool, because me, just some blind kid in Florida, could contribute and make things and share things and just ...participate. I would talk to friends trying to go in to other careers, and excitedly talk about what I was working on and be curious why they never did anything related to what they wanted to do when they grew up.

Now, I understand how this comes about, bit by bit, with the best of intentions.

And I hate it.

Please, just no. If you want to set up a corporate only, super-sekret clubhouse of a PyPi that only the authorized developers can push to, well, the source code for PyPi is right here[0]! And here's Stripe[1]! But please don't break even more of the open, free Internet that I grew up with, I'm pleading with you.

[0]: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse

[1]: https://dashboard.stripe.com/register

1 comments

The ones who broke the commons are the ones who abused it by uploading malware and lazy student projects. You shouldn't blame the host for trying to maintain standards in light of this. When you have a tragedy of the commons scenario, the solution is to regulate the commons. Otherwise it will lose all value for everybody.