Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/07/2015 02:20, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

>
> I don't like how this is being redirected to "surely you
> misunderstood" or "I don't believe you". The fact that some core devs
> are hostile to 2.x development is really bleedingly obvious, you
> shouldn't need quotes or context thrown at you. The rhetoric almost
> always shies _just_ short of ceasing bugfixes (until 2020, when that
> abruptly becomes a cracking good idea). e.g. in "2.7 is here until
> 2020, please don't call it a waste".
>

A couple of things.

First "some core devs are hostile", actually some have stated that 
they're simply not interested in 2.7 and will not work on it.

Second how has the thread got here, as it was originally asking about 
back porting bug fixes from 3.x to 2.7?  Further it said:-

<quote>
If the vast majority of Python programmers are focused on 2.7, why are 
volunteers to help fix 2.7 bugs so scarce?
</quote>

So I most humbly suggest, as I may have hinted at once or twice earlier 
in this thread, that people either put up or shut up.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence