[woodruffw]

Thank you for being the first person to make a non-conspiratorial argument here! I agree with your estimation: PyPI is not going to mandate this, but it’s possible that there will be social pressure from individual package consumers to adopt attestations.

This is an unfortunate double effect, and one that I’m aware of. That’s why the emphasis has been on enabling them by default for as many people as possible.

I also agree about the need for a local/self-hosted story. We’ve been thinking about how to enable similar attestations with email and domain identities, since PyPI does or could have the ability to verify both.

[takluyver]

If there is time for someone to work on local uploads, a good starting point would be a nicer workflow for uploading with 2FA. At present you either have to store a long lived token somewhere to use for many uploads, and risk that it is stolen, or fiddle about creating & then removing a token to use for each release.