Naming

[EdLeafe]

Hi - forgive me for doing this through an issue, but I couldn't find an email address for you anywhere.

I work for Rackspace, and am the maintainer of pyrax, the Python SDK for OpenStack clouds. We are creating a new version that removes the Rackspace-specific stuff and makes it more OpenStack-centric, and had been calling it 'pystack' internally for some time. However, I went to register it on PyPI today, and found this repo had recently taken that name.

Is there any chance that you might be able to change the name of your project to avoid a conflict? Our use of 'pystack' has already been announced and accepted within the developers who use pyrax, so changing it would be more problematic.

If you'd rather continue this discussion in email rather than GitHub, you can reach me here: [email protected]

[RobinDavid]

Hi,

Le Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:14:36 -0000, Ed Leafe [email protected] a
écrit:

Hi - forgive me for doing this through an issue, but I couldn't find an
email address for you anywhere. No problem, I prefer not to let my email address everywhere.

I work for Rackspace, and am the maintainer of pyrax, the Python SDK for
OpenStack clouds. We are creating a new >version that removes the
Rackspace-specific stuff and makes it more OpenStack-centric, and had
been calling it >'pystack' internally for some time. However, I went to
register it on PyPI today, and found this repo had recently >taken that
name. I have already heard about OpenStack, but I never had the time to get to
know it further. Could you tell me more about it ? (just curious)

Is there any chance that you might be able to change the name of your
project to avoid a conflict? Our use of >'pystack' has already been
announced and accepted within the developers who use pyrax, so changing
it would be >more problematic. It's annoying, because I'm really attached to this name and I have already
started to share the link of the Pypi, but I do understand that for a
company like yours it would be better to get such explicit name. I am really busy today and I don't have the time to find a solution for
this problem, but I am sure we will find an arrangement. If you have any
ideas let me know. I takes notes to contact you back as soon as I have the time.

Sincerely,

Robin DAVID

[EdLeafe]

Hi,

[posted a comment earlier that seems to have disappeared]

Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been traveling and otherwise keeping very busy.

Do you have any ideas for an alternative name for your project? Is there anything we can do to help with the name change?

-- Ed