PEP 541: Transfer ownership of pyhdf to python-hdf4 maintainer

[djhoese]

The python-hdf4 package has become a popular fork of the pyhdf package which has not seen any updates in 10 years. The python-hdf4 package adds python 3 support and other bug fixes. The related project issue is fhs/pyhdf#13

I think @fhs and @hdfeos should be given maintainership. @teoliphant is a maintainer of the package on PyPI so if he has any information/feedback on this I wouldn't mind hearing it.

As mentioned in the related issue, pyhdf's naming has been an issue for a long time but now especially that there is a pyhdf package on conda-forge with the original name but everyone using PyPI has gotten used to downloading python-hdf4. The conda package points to @hdfeos's copy of the library which is actually a fork of python-hdf4. I'm hoping that this ownership transfer is the start of a single pyhdf package.

If there is another way to do this (related: #1506) let me know.

[djhoese]

What is the next step with this? Should I "try harder" at contacting the original maintainers?

[pradyunsg]

Hi! Sorry for the delayed response here.

Have you tried to contact Travis Oliphant via any medium, other than the GitHub mention on this issue? If not, I'd suggest dropping him an email and seeing if he's willing to transfer the package name to you.

In case he does not respond for a while, feel free to ping on this issue again.

[djhoese]

Just sent an email, thanks.

[teoliphant]

Hey all. So sorry for the delayed response. Do I understand correctly that python-hdf4 is a fork of pyhdf that would like to have the pyhdf name on PyPI, because it is a more maintained version of the library?

This make sense. I'm very happy to add new maintainers to the PyPI project. I have added fhs as a maintainer. I am happy to add djhoese if you tell me your PyPI name. Thanks for the email.

[djhoese]

@teoliphant Thanks for replying! My username is dhoese on PyPI. Thanks.

[fhs]

Thanks @teoliphant. I'll be making a new release after I've updated the name in setup.py, documentation, etc. I think I'll change the repo name to pyhdf as well.

@djhoese I've created fhs/pyhdf#22 with the changes but I think more changes are need.

[fhs]

New version of pyhdf has been published in PyPI. This issue can be closed.