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diff --git a/deps/npm/html/doc/disputes.html b/deps/npm/html/doc/disputes.html index 63e8a2682..bbd13a447 100644 --- a/deps/npm/html/doc/disputes.html +++ b/deps/npm/html/doc/disputes.html @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ <ol><li>Get the author email with <code>npm owner ls <pkgname></code></li><li>Email the author, CC <a href="mailto:i@izs.me">i@izs.me</a>.</li><li>After a few weeks, if there's no resolution, we'll sort it out.</li></ol> +<p>Don't squat on package names. Publish code or move out of the way.</p> + <h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>There sometimes arise cases where a user publishes a module, and then @@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ but can't publish, because Bob's <code>foo</code> is in the way.</li></o Joe's appropriate course of action in each case is the same.</p> <ol><li><code>npm owner ls foo</code>. This will tell Joe the email address of the -owner (Bob).</li><li>Joe emails Bob, explaining the situation <strong>as respecfully as possible</strong>, +owner (Bob).</li><li>Joe emails Bob, explaining the situation <strong>as respectfully as possible</strong>, and what he would like to do with the module name. He adds isaacs <a href="mailto:i@izs.me">i@izs.me</a> to the CC list of the email. Mention in the email that Bob can run <code>npm owner add joe foo</code> to add Joe as an owner of @@ -72,7 +74,11 @@ but not limited to:</p> <ol><li>Malware (that is, a module designed to exploit or harm the machine on which it is installed)</li><li>Violations of copyright or licenses (for example, cloning an MIT-licensed program, and then removing or changing the copyright and -license statement)</li><li>Illegal content.</li></ol> +license statement)</li><li>Illegal content.</li><li>"Squatting" on a package name that you <em>plan</em> to use, but aren't +actually using. Sorry, I don't care how great the name is, or how +perfect a fit it is for the thing that someday might happen. If +someone wants to use it today, and you're just taking up space with +an empty tarball, you're going to be evicted.</li></ol> <p>If you see bad behavior like this, please report it right away.</p> @@ -80,7 +86,7 @@ license statement)</li><li>Illegal content.</li></ol> <ul><li><a href="../doc/registry.html">registry(1)</a></li><li><a href="../doc/owner.html">owner(1)</a></li></ul> </div> -<p id="footer">disputes — npm@1.1.69</p> +<p id="footer">disputes — npm@1.1.70</p> <script> ;(function () { var wrapper = document.getElementById("wrapper") |