PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention for eventkit

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issue created pypi/support#4563

PEP 541 check list

Reachability

• original author is not reachable, as unfortunately has passed away

Abandoned projects criteria

All the criteria defined in pep 541 are meet

• owner not reachable
• no releases within the past twelve months; and
• no activity from the owner on the project’s home page (or no home page listed).

Continued maintenance of an abandoned project

• the project has been determined abandoned by the rules described above;
• the candidate is able to demonstrate their own failed attempts to contact the existing owner;
• the candidate is able to demonstrate improvements made on the candidate’s own fork of the project;
• the candidate is able to demonstrate why a fork under a different name is not an acceptable workaround; and
• the maintainers of the Package Index don’t have any additional reservations.