# Reduce package registration waiting period

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reduce-package-registration-waiting-period/40954
**Category:** Meta Discussion
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reduce-package-registration-waiting-period/40954 "2020-06-07T21:45:03Z")
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### Author: ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reduce-package-registration-waiting-period/40954/94 "2020-06-09T18:16:08Z")

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A couple of points:

Pkg has no problem with duplicate names, so squatting a name like this does not prevent someone else form using it. It prompts for which you want and in the future we could provide download stats and/or stars to help people decide. I doubt an empty package will get a lot of stars or downloads so it would not take long to rank higher than a squatter.

We should actively archive unmaintained or empty packages. We have already done one round of this for packages that don’t support Julia 1.0 at all; more archivings can occur in the future.

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