PEP 541 Request: axe-selenium-python

[m8ttyB]

Project to be claimed

PROJECT_NAME: https://pypi.org/project/axe-selenium-python

Your PyPI username

USER_NAME: https://pypi.org/user/thibaudcolas

Reasons for the request

The maintainer and I previously worked within the Mozilla community. The project has since been deprecated, and the maintainer is no longer responding to requests to reinstate active maintenance of this package.

The OSS community would like to re-acquire this project and continue to maintain and deploy it under the axe-selenium-python name.

Maintenance or replacement?

Maintenance

Source code repositories URLs

We intend to continue maintenance of the original package - https://github.com/mozilla-services/axe-selenium-python

Contact and additional research

For some context, I was the original architect of this project and previously worked at Mozilla. kimberlythegeek worked on my team and we built a tool to assist with accessibility testing and shared the package with the community using PyPI. Kimberly and I have since moved on from Mozilla, but there is community interest in reinvigorating development on it.

Mozilla is in the process of transferring the GitHub repo to the community as they no longer have the ability to maintain it actively.

Kimberly is no longer responding to email, Slack, or GitHub pings, and I would like the maintainer role transferred to my user account.

Here's a thread documenting the conversation with @davehunt at Mozilla, which documents that the project is no longer being maintained. It also includes pings to Kimberly that have gone unanswered.

I suspect the PyPI account is linked to Kimberly's old @mozilla email account, which is no longer active.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the PSF Code of Conduct

[davehunt]

This request has been open almost 3 months, how long does it usually take to get a decision?

[thibaudcolas]

👋 the GitHub transfer is now completed, from mozilla-services/axe-selenium-python to axe-selenium-python/axe-selenium-python. This is per the following contractual agreement between Mozilla and myself: Mozilla Thibaud Axe-Selenium-Python Agreement For Execution (PDF, 200kb). TL;DR;

WHEREAS, Colas, in collaboration with open source community contributors, wishes to continue
development and maintenance of the ASP Project;
WHEREAS, Mozilla desires to transfer control of the ASP Project and the open source ASP
Repository to enable Colas and open source community members to continue developing and
maintaining them;

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@m8ttyB are you ok to update the request with my username? I’m thibaudcolas on PyPI.

[m8ttyB]

@thibaudcolas, this is excellent news. Thank you to @davehunt and Mozilla for completing the repository transfer.

Yes, let's update this request to move the PyPI project to https://pypi.org/user/thibaudcolas. I'll update the transfer request to hand the PyPI project to you.

[Thespi-Brain]

Hi @thibaudcolas and @m8ttyB,

We are working to contact the owner to determine if they're reachable and have sent them a courtesy message.

Final determination regarding project ownership will be made by the PyPI Administrators when the research process is complete.

[thibaudcolas]

Thank you @Thespi-Brain (and happy new year!). Appreciate the update, and it’s super interesting to see the PEP 541 process at work.

For what it’s worth personally I attempted to contact the current owner via the email address on their GitHub profile on 2024-09-26 to make sure they were aware of the ongoing transfer discussion and possibly get their help, and got no response (and I don’t intend to follow up further). @m8ttyB also @-mentioned them in GitHub about a year prior to that in the package’s long-running maintainers discussion thread, and most likely over email too. As far as I know none of us heard back.

[Thespi-Brain]

The Owner was unreachable and did not get back to us regarding the status of their project despite multiple attempts. Therefore, we consider the project abandoned per PEP 541. I recommend that the PyPI Admins assign @thibaudcolas as the new owner of axe-selenium-python.