poetry alias, why not?

[brunolnetto]

Feature Request

I found this feature on Pypi. Since it is not official, it wakes my internal urges to notify poetry staff about hacker-alert.

https://pypi.org/project/poetry-alias/

[neersighted]

The Poetry project does not hold a copyright on the name; third-party plugins are welcome and encouraged. While we prefer the naming scheme poetry-plugin-<name> for PyPI packages, plugin authors are free to name things as they see fit.

[brunolnetto]

The action "Add tag "status/invalid"" makes me wonder if the OP-question is invalid by itself or if there is no explicit plan to implement the feature poetry alias or any other alias-related additional command to poetry. May you clarify it?

[neersighted]

Your issue seemed to be about the fact that something named poetry-alias is available on PyPI, but not by the official Poetry team. That is not a security/"hacker" issue at all.

Regarding the functionality of the plugin, it seems to be a fancy way to chdir. There is no want to implement something like that in Poetry itself.

If I misunderstood the intent of your, I apologize. Please follow the instructions for feature requests in the contributing guide as well as the issue template to reduce ambiguity in the future.

[brunolnetto]

Sure, your interpretation skills does not leave you unattended. The command "chdir" seems useful on the subject, but since poetry is a package management module, it suits well its .toml archictecture in the same way git comand places alias commands on path .git/config.

May you forward here the proper way to request a feature?

[neersighted]

Sure, your interpretation skills does not leave you unattended. The command "chdir" seems useful on the subject, but since poetry is a package management module, it suits well its .toml archictecture in the same way git comand places alias commands on path .git/config.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, and I'm still unclear why you linked the PyPI package. It doesn't implement the functionality you seem to want. We have an existing feature request at #2496, that you seem to be already aware of.

[brunolnetto]

100% is "great", but 75% is "good", which may be better than 50%-"ok".

The issue is 1.5 years old, which is like "much" according to Moore's law. Regardless of which, I know there is some relation between backlog feature requests, men-hours and product-management agreements that delays every wanted feature.

A recommendation for such popular library like poetry is to publish some (estimated) release schedule to mitigate (our) expectations. :-)

[neersighted]

Poetry is a volunteer-led and developed project. The answer to "when will feature X be implemented" is "when someone interested delivers patches and they go through code review (which takes other interested parties)." Ideally we also review feature requests/proposals in the mean time to prevent false hope/wasted effort if a feature is unlikely to be accepted.

This is wildly off topic and we have an existing feature request, I'm going to lock this issue for now to nudge discussion over to the proper issue.