[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 -- bugfix or security before EOL?

[Chris Jerdonek]

Oh, that makes your original email make much more sense (at least to me). I
also interpreted it to mean you were interested in extending the EOL date
out further, rather than pointing out that it should probably already have
been switched from “bugfix” to “security” status.

—Chris

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:46 AM Michael Scott Cuthbert <cuthbert at mit.edu>
wrote:

> >* it still is in the time period before
> *>* EOL that other recent versions have gone to security only.
> *
> Again, not relevant.
>
> You might want to read http://python3statement.org/. <http://python3statement.org/>
>
> I’m guessing my first message was unclear or able to be misunderstood in
> some part — I’m one of the frequent contributors to python3statement.org
> and have moved my own Python projects to Py3 only (the main one, music21,
> gets its 3.4+-only release this Saturday).  I have NO desire to prolong the
> 2.7 pain.
>
> What I am referring to is the number of “needs backport to 2.7” tags for
> non-security-related bug-fixes in the issue tracker. (
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22needs+backport+to+2.7%22
> <https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is:pr+is:open+label:%22needs+backport+to+2.7%22>)
> My question was between now and 1 Jan 2020 should we still be fixing things
> in 2.7 that we’re not fixing in 3.5, or leave 2.7 in a security-only mode
> for the next 21 months?  Looking at what has been closed recently, without
> getting a bpo for actually backporting, it appears that we’re sort of doing
> this in practice anyhow.
>
> Thanks! and even if my message was read differently than I intended, glad
> that it had a good effect.
>
> Michael Cuthbert (https://music21-mit.blogspot.com)
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