Rename to "autocomplete-python" and consolidate

[mehcode]

For better discover-ability of this (awesome) package I recommend a rename to autocomplete-python and a consolidation (and removal of all but one) with the other autocomplete jedi plugins (I chose this package to post this issue too as it seems the most recent / working version).

• https://atom.io/packages/autocomplete-jedi
• https://atom.io/packages/autocomplete-plus-jedi

//cc @benogle

[tinloaf]

I don't think this is something we (me or @benogle) can or should do. Basically, that's other peoples packages, and just kicking them would be ... bad. Thanks for your support though. ;)

[mehcode]

I agree. However attempted communication with those packages and then (after some time period) removing them or flagging them someway should be done. If I search for "autocomplete python" right now I get a few different options and have to read through to figure it out.

As a community we need to consolidate packages that provide the same functionality to better give a single package to the user.

[benogle]

It would be nice if everyone interested in this a python provider could work together on a single package cc @emhagman @fallenhitokiri

[tinloaf]

Yeah, absolutely. I wrote @fallenhitokiri a mail some time ago... perhaps we could get some coordination under way?

[fallenhitokiri]

@tinloaf just checked my mailbox again - I cannot find your mail. Did I ever answer it and forgot about it? Only thing I can find is your PR.

I have absolutely no problem removing my package from APM. I gave Atom a try and didn't find a maintained and working plugin, so I wrote one.
But since I like neither Atom nor the parts of the Atom / plugin community I encountered so far I am more than happy to see someone else shipping a working Python provider. I'll remove it this weekend.

Judging from this discussion it looks like the best course is to notify the users I am aware of to switch to this plugin?

[tinloaf]

@fallenhitokiri 30.3.2015 to [email protected] ?
@benogle I had a look, and it seems there is no real possibility to merge two packages in APM, right? It's possible to rename them, though... could something be hacked with renaming?

[benogle]

cc @thedaniel, can we 'merge' package names?

[mehcode]

If we could make renaming work like it does in github than we could do a redirect from the current name to autocomplete-python. I'd also hide the "symlinked" names from search and inform the users that the name changed somehow (some warning or other).

[thedaniel]

Currently, when packages are renamed, there's a redirect_from attribute set on the package so the old name still works. I could fully delete (most records are soft-deleted) the package that should go away and manually set the redirect_from value on the one that stays.

[fallenhitokiri]

@tinloaf sorry - checked my inbox again and the spam filter, no mail from you. Not sure what went wrong.

[tinloaf]

Just seen that @sadovnychyi created yet another incarnation of this. See autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python#4 .. we should definitely consolidate this somehow.