PEP 541 Request: wait-for-it

[hartwork]

Project to be claimed

wait-for-it: https://pypi.org/project/wait-for-it

Your PyPI username

sping: https://pypi.org/user/sping

Reasons for the request

Hello! :wave:

The situation from my view is this:

• wait-for-it's latest release on PyPI is broken for Python 3.11, fixes are merged, and it takes a new release to PyPI to unblock people's upgrade to Python 3.11 including my own and @scastlara's (based on private mail exchange with him).
• Author @clarketm gave me Collaborator permissions on GitHub in the past as a result of my past contributions on the project (https://github.com/clarketm/wait-for-it/commits?author=hartwork), so I can push to the repository at the moment but not release to PyPI.
• I have been asking for a new release for ~3 months at https://github.com/clarketm/wait-for-it/issues/52 with pinging again and again, no reply.
• I reached out via e-mail directly also in case he ignores mail from the repository, but no reply.
• @clarketm's GitHub activity has automated but no human activity after 2021-09 to my eyes, see research below.

To be clear, if @clarketm returns, I am more than happy to hand back the PyPI access back to him.

Thanks for your help and time with this PEP 541 process :pray:

Best, Sebastian

Maintenance or replacement?

Maintenance

Source code repositories URLs

https://github.com/clarketm/wait-for-it

Contact and additional research

E-Mail

@clarketm has a Keybase page at https://keybase.io/clarketm with the same picture as his GitHub avatar. That leads to address travis(dott)m(dott)clarke(att)gmail.com for an address like this:

# wget -O- https://keybase.io/clarketm/pgp_keys.asc 2>/dev/null | gpg --list-packets | grep @

I mailed @clarketm three times on that address (including not recently) and never got a reply from that address:

• 2020-11-24
• 2020-12-14
• 2023-01-30

I tried travis.clarke(att)offerup.com before that also on 2020-11-24 (same day but earlier) but I think I got some "mail delivery error" back then, cannot find a copy in my archive.

GitHub activity

@clarketm's GitHub account has frequent commits on two repository from automation but the last GitHub activity I find that looks human is as far back as 2021-09 (see https://github.com/clarketm?tab=overview&from=2021-09-01&to=2021-09-30)

Blog

@clarketm's blog has no posts since 2019-02, see https://blog.travismclarke.com/

Work

@clarketm's profile says he works at Facebook/Meta. If you happen to work at Facebook/Meta or know someone who does and can ask to reach out to Travis M. Clarke internally, that would be great.

Code of Conduct

• [X] I agree to follow the PSF Code of Conduct

[hartwork]

Has anyone had a chance yet to try reach out to @clarketm and/or colleagues at Meta/Facebook?

[hartwork]

Any thoughts?

[hartwork]

Any news?

[hartwork]

Any thoughts?

[hartwork]

It's two months of no reply now. Any thoughts?

[hartwork]

@pypi anyone?

[encukou]

It looks like you now are a co-maintainer, and did publish a 2.2.2 release.

[hartwork]

@encukou I received permissions to upload and used them for 2.2.2, yes. The rest of the situation remains a complete mystery to me, I haven't heard a word outside the generated PyPI grant e-mail… Should we close the ticket?

[ambv]

We are working to contact the owner to determine if they're reachable.

Disclaimer: We are providing support to the PyPI Administrators to validate this request and make a recommendation on the outcome and actions to be taken. Final determination will be made by the PyPI Administrators when our process is complete.

[encukou]

We could not reach the owner, and we consider the project abandoned by them per PEP 541.

We recommend that the PyPI Administrators promote sping (currently a maintainer) to be the owner of "wait-for-it".

[ewdurbin]

Owner role on wait-for-it Project granted to spring.