How PyPA (Python Packaging Authority) got its name

gistfile1.txt

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:01:09 +0100
From: Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>
To: Carl Meyer <[email protected]>,
 Brian Rosner <[email protected]>,
 Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
Subject: (github) account naming

Hi all,

So we should probably find a name for the new home of pip and virtualenv =
on Github, mostly because I believe an own organisation on Github is =
better than tying the projects to one user account.

The options are (without any order of my preference):

- http://github.com/ianb-ng
- http://github.com/ibtng
- http://github.com/pypackaging
- http://github.com/politburo
- http://github.com/kombinat
- http://github.com/pypa (Python Packaging Authority)
- http://github.com/ppa  (same)
- http://github.com/pack
- your proposal..

Cheers,
Jannis

gistfile2.txt

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:17:09 -0600
From: Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
To: Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Bicking <[email protected]>, Brian Rosner <[email protected]>, 
	Carl Meyer <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: (github) account naming

Something with "Ministry of Installation"?

gistfile3.txt

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:09:01 -0700
From: Brian Rosner <[email protected]>
To: Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>
Cc: Carl Meyer <[email protected]>,
 Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: (github) account naming

pypa is my vote. ppa might be confusing with Ubuntu's PPA? I'd avoid =
anything with ianb in it to reduce confusion.

gistfile4.txt

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:08:17 -0500
From: Carl Meyer <[email protected]>
To: Brian Rosner <[email protected]>
CC: Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>, Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: (github) account naming

I'd probably go for "pypa" or "pack", either one's fine.

I like "Ministry of Installation" for the implicit Monty Python
reference, but I can't think of any reasonably-short version of that for
a github name that doesn't lose the reference.

Carl

gistfile5.txt

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:35:55 -0600
From: Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
To: Carl Meyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Bicking <[email protected]>, Brian Rosner <[email protected]>, 
	Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: (github) account naming

I also like pypa. Or can we use the word "cabal" somehow?