Deleting packages, duplicates and deprecatations

[ghost]

Sending another notice about the need to provide package maintainers the ability to delete packages. The migration to the new package system is creating tons of duplicates as package maintainers try to control the namespace of their packages, and make publishing mistakes.

[wedow]

Just want to +1 this. Running into it as well.

[dburles]

Hey guys we're aware of this, perhaps in the future meteor may allow you to remove packages that have not yet had any installs. Also package renaming is coming. On top of this we're considering ways to hide or minimise the visibility of stale packages on atmosphere itself.

[wedow]

Hey David, that's great to hear. Thanks for the update!
On 2014-08-31 8:52 PM, "David Burles" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey guys we're aware of this, perhaps in the future meteor may allow you
to remove packages that have not yet had any installs. Also package
renaming is coming. On top of this we're considering ways to hide or
minimise the visibility of stale packages on atmosphere itself.

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[ghost]

Good to hear - thanks for the update.

[domyen]

Agree with the sentiments expressed here.

Since Meteor 0.9.0 now manages the package index, folks can request the ability to delete packages to the Meteor roadmap or meteor-talk group.

[tmeasday]

This has been addressed in Meteor 0.9.3 (soon to be released by the looks of it).

We're adding a flagging feature which should help in the case of the maintainer disappearing.

Leaving this unfixed for now until 0.9.3 and us supporting it.

[domyen]

As of 0.9.3 you can prevent packages from showing up in meteor search with meteor admin set-unmigrated. Checkout their blogpost here.

Closing.

[dandv]

Unfortunately flagging doesn't work that well. https://atmospherejs.com/urigo/ngmeteor has 3 stars already before I flagged it, and it's a package that the author would like to delete.

[dandv]

@dominicnguyen: how does one request features on the roadmap?

[domyen]

If it's an Atmosphere feature checkout Flight Path. If it's a Meteor package backend or an oauth feature checkout Meteor Roadmap.

[dandv]

I'm aware of the roadmaps, but all I can do is comment on existing cards. Can't add new ones.

[domyen]

Made a new triage card for feature requests here.