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[21:15:06] <msoos> Hi all! There is a package that is my code, packaged: https://pypi.org/project/pycryptosat/ I am quite sure that the maintainer would be happy to give me control over it. However, I cannot find her/him, "pierrev" is not descriptive enough. Is there a way of contacting her/him? We need to upgrade that package, it's super-outdated and I want to give good user experience :)

[21:18:09] <tdsmith> looking at their other packages, i see there's an email for pierre.vignet@irisa.fr at https://pypi.org/project/cadbiom/

[21:19:14] <msoos> tdsmith: Niiiice!!

[21:19:16] <tdsmith> also i used cryptominisat for some work last year; thank you for your work on it!

[21:19:17] <msoos> Thank you so much!

[21:19:29] <msoos> Ah cool!

[21:19:34] <msoos> What did you use it for?

[21:20:47] <msoos> I'm always curious to hear about nice use cases

[21:21:27] <tdsmith> molecular biology, assembling assay panels of primer sequences for PCR -- we had a model that would predict whether any pair of primer sequences would be compatible with each other in the same panel, and the goal was to choose the set of primer sequences that maximized the number of targets we could fit in the panel

[21:24:57] <msoos> Wow

[21:25:03] <msoos> that's some serious science stuff :)

[21:25:26] <msoos> I now feel a little proud that I could contribute to that, in however small of a way.

[21:26:09] <ngoldbaum> msoos: if you can't contact them it might be less work in the end to fork it and come up with a new package name

[21:26:18] <msoos> All right, I wrote to Pierre, hopefully the newest CryptoMiniSat will be up on PYPI in no time and all will be well. Thanks again for helping me out and good luck using the solver in the future!

[21:26:26] <ngoldbaum> there is a process to reclaim abandoned packages but it's a slow process

[21:26:34] <tdsmith> the goal was to detect cancer from a blood sample using sequencing technologies! unfortunately we couldn't make it competitive against some other approaches

[21:26:38] <tdsmith> you're welcome and good luck!

[21:26:59] <msoos> ngoldbaum: thanks for the pro tip -- I'll try first, hopefull s/he will respond without much delay :)

[21:27:41] <msoos> Oh, okay, good to know there is an abandoned package reclaim option too. Thanks :) And thanks for all everyone! Cheers!

[21:28:41] <msoos> tdsmith: if the SAT part was the slow part, you can always drop me a mail, and I'm happy to assist!

[21:28:45] <msoos> Cheers all!