From: Emmanuel Gomez Date: 2010-08-06T08:03:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Project name ownership and conflict Roger Pack wrote: > Yeah typically all we check if "can I push this gem?" before grabbing > the namespace. Based on responses received so far, this seems to be the prevailing view. This speaks to the letter of my question. > Unfortunately. This speaks directly to the spirit of my question. Namely: what expectation would the community prefer to hold Gem authors to? > Hopefully you can work it out civilly :) I'm sure we will. I have no interest in being uncivil in this matter. My fellow Rubyist seems to have little interest in the matter at all. Posession is nine-tenths of the law, after all. > One option would be to keep with your original github gem name > username-gemname, since apparently that was good enough at one point? Thank you for the suggestion. I think a new, non-conflicting name is the only acceptable solution in this case. My inflexibility: how many Gems with Github username prefixes are in general use? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.