Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?

[Paul Rubin]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> I am suggesting that if there are 10x as many 2.7only programmers as
> 3.xonly programmers, and none of the 2.7 programmers is willing to do
> the backport *of an already accepted patch*, then maybe it should not
> be done at all.

The patch acceptance/approval process is frankly daunting.