Add support for changing username

[jleclanche]

This is a sorely needed feature on pypi. Let me know if I can help implement it in warehouse.

[brainwane]

This is a new feature that legacy PyPI does not support, and I also think it would be a good idea -- you're welcome to help implement it (although it might depend on #414 ?).

[nlhkabu]

#414 is now closed, so this is fine to go ahead.

[brainwane]

@jleclanche thanks for your note and sorry for the slow response!

The folks working on Warehouse have gotten funding to concentrate on improving and deploying Warehouse, and have kicked off work towards our development roadmap -- the most urgent task is to improve Warehouse to the point where we can redirect pypi.python.org to pypi.org so the site is more sustainable and reliable. Since, as @di noted in #2833 (comment) , this feature isn't something that the legacy site has, I've moved it to a future milestone. But we'd be happy if a volunteer helped make it happen sooner than that!

Thanks and sorry again for the wait.

[brainwane]

@jleclanche You mentioned you'd be interested in implementing it -- right now is a great time to get started working on Warehouse, since there are multiple people working actively on Warehouse for the next few months who can help you get started and review your code. Ernest W. Durbin III has multiple livechat mentorship slots available each week to help if you're interested in joining us!

[brainwane]

We'd appreciate a volunteer's help with this feature! if you have questions along the way as you work on this, please feel free to ask them here, in #pypa-dev on Freenode, or the pypa-dev mailing list.

In today's core Warehouse developers' meeting we decided to pare down our near-future milestones on our development roadmap so they really only contain the essential bugfixes and features we need to launch, replace legacy PyPI, and shut down the old site. So I'm moving this issue into a milestone further in the future.