There are some fake gems

[Куракин Александр]

Good day!

Somebody named himself as "positive" (https://rubygems.org/profiles/positive) owns 128 gems.

But all of them are empty.

Can I do something to reach removing of these gems and get one of name I want?

Thanks!

[Aaron Cruz]

Are you looking for jazzyjeans, jazzy-jeans or jazzy_jeans? I prefer the underscore. I think Jazzyjeans looks crappy.

Best of luck to you!

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aaron

PS. I really do want jazzy_jeans.

[Куракин Александр]

I'm seriously. Can you free fake names?

пятница, 13 декабря 2013 г., 13:23:06 UTC+4 пользователь Куракин Александр написал:

[Jared Fine]

Seems like a nice solution for the namespace issue would be to allow for as many /user/name gems but if you wanted a /name then it'd require a "donation" ($50, $100, more?). That'd help with the squatting and abandoning of gems and help fund operations.

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[Michał Papis]

you can always name a gem: user-name

as a bonus you get your name in the gem ;)

[Miah Johnson]

I've had a similar discussion with Opscode/Chef about the same thing in their community repo. I think the Archlinux AUR serves as a great example of how to handle all of these issues.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines

Their system handles squatting and abandonment without resorting to putting everything under 'authors name' in the namespace.

Curious what you all think.

Miah

[Nick Quaranto]

For what it's worth: we have been long overdue publishing an official policy on this. The Archlinux guidelines look like a good base to go off of.

We have multiple times in the past removed "spam" accounts that squat on tens to hundreds of gem names. Given it hasn't happened to frequently, it hasn't been a big deal.

As for "authors name" namespacing: this is what gems.github.com did, and I don't think we want to go back to that kind of namespacing. It's still a mess: http://gems.github.com/list.html

Nick

[Samuel Williams]

In what way do you consider it a mess?