From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-08-06T00:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Project name ownership and conflict


> What is the community view of project name 'ownership'? Was my fellow
> Rubyist right to publish his Gem without checking Google, GitHub or
> RubyForge for existing projects under his intended name? Or am I right
> to expect Ruby Gem authors to perform at least a minimal search for
> existing projects prior to publication?

Yeah typically all we check if "can I push this gem?" before grabbing 
the namespace.  Unfortunately.
Hopefully you can work it out civilly :)
One option would be to keep with your original github gem name 
username-gemname, since apparently that was good enough at one point?
-r
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