Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 7:16:50 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 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.

I just ran the following command
$ hg log --template "{author|person}\n" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

as giving all the committers to python in sorted order.
I get the list below.
Dont see any Mark Lawrence there
Of course I dont know hg at all well... Just picked up the above command from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6126678/how-to-list-commiters-sorted-by-number-of-commits-commit-count

So... May I humbly ask where are your precious commits??

List of python committers:
-------------------------
 11081 Guido van Rossum
   6172 Fred Drake
   6120 Georg Brandl
   5603 Benjamin Peterson
   4077 Raymond Hettinger
   3874 Victor Stinner
   3774 Antoine Pitrou
   3157 Jack Jansen
   3089 Martin v. Löwis
   2668 Tim Peters
   2372 Serhiy Storchaka
   2219 Andrew M. Kuchling
   2205 Barry Warsaw
   2038 Ezio Melotti
   2016 Neal Norwitz
   2009 Mark Dickinson
   1966 Brett Cannon
   1307 R David Murray
   1180 Christian Heimes
   1159 Senthil Kumaran
   1108 Gregory P. Smith
   1075 Éric Araujo
   1071 Vinay Sajip
   1065 Jeremy Hylton
    903 Tarek Ziadé
    872 Greg Ward
    871 Thomas Heller
    780 R. David Murray
    777 Terry Jan Reedy
    728 Skip Montanaro
    695 Nick Coghlan
    687 Ned Deily
    581 Ronald Oussoren
    579 Walter Dörwald
    527 Kurt B. Kaiser
    519 Michael W. Hudson
    511 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
    481 Stefan Krah
    450 Andrew Svetlov
    432 Thomas Wouters
    423 Zachary Ware
    422 Anthony Baxter
    403 Brian Curtin
    400 Florent Xicluna
    387 Eli Bendersky
    383 Eric Smith
    370 Hirokazu Yamamoto
    364 Charles-François Natali
    362 Alexander Belopolsky
    354 Just van Rossum
    344 Marc-André Lemburg
    340 Alexandre Vassalotti
    334 Michael Foord
    317 Neil Schemenauer
    314 Fredrik Lundh
    293 Jesus Cea
    285 Sandro Tosi
    282 Larry Hastings
    264 Yury Selivanov
    260 Matthias Klose
    259 Berker Peksag
    239 Richard Oudkerk
    233 Nadeem Vawda
    202 Kristján Valur Jónsson
    189 Petri Lehtinen
    174 Collin Winter
    166 Lars Gustäbel
    163 Hye-Shik Chang
    159 Mark Hammond
    159 Facundo Batista
    156 Armin Rigo
    154 Andrew MacIntyre
    153 Steve Dower
    153 doko
    153 Chris Jerdonek
    152 Sjoerd Mullender
    123 Łukasz Langa
    121 cvs2svn
    118 Giampaolo Rodolà
    112 Andrew Kuchling
    109 Guilherme Polo
    109 Giampaolo Rodola'
    106 Eric Snow
    102 Ka-Ping Yee
    101 Meador Inge
    101 Jesse Noller
    101 Jason R. Coombs
     97 Trent Nelson
     97 Steven M. Gava
     96 Hynek Schlawack
     93 Tim Golden
     93 Eric S. Raymond
     91 Ethan Furman
     87 Moshe Zadka
     87 Johannes Gijsbers
     87 Jeffrey Yasskin
     79 Roger E. Masse
     77 Ross Lagerwall
     67 Donald Stufft
     65 George Yoshida
     63 Phillip J. Eby
     63 Philip Jenvey
     62 Gustavo Niemeyer
     59 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
     58 Steven Bethard
     51 Eric V. Smith
     50 Roger Serwy
     46 Bob Ippolito
     45 Terry Reedy
     45 Peter Schneider-Kamp
     45 Gerhard Häring
     42 Tarek Ziade
     42 Edward Loper
     40 Peter Astrand
     39 Alex Martelli
     38 Daniel Stutzbach
     37 Sean Reifscheider
     37 Jason Tishler
     36 Bill Janssen
     34 Trent Mick
     34 Piers Lauder
     33 Jack Diederich
     31 Mark Summerfield
     31 Jim Fulton
     29 Greg Stein
     28 Nicholas Bastin
     27 Andrew McNamara
     23 Robert Schuppenies
     23 Josiah Carlson
     22 Vladimir Marangozov
     21 Kristjan Valur Jonsson
     21 Brian Quinlan
     20 Paul Prescod
     18 Tony Lownds
     18 Steve Purcell
     18 Andrew Dalke
     17 Finn Bock
     17 David Wolever
     16 Steve Holden
     16 Robert Collins
     16 Jean-Paul Calderone
     16 Charles-Francois Natali
     15 Žiga Seilnacht
     15 David Malcolm
     15 Armin Ronacher
     14 Travis E. Oliphant
     14 Tal Einat
     14 Richard Jones
     14 Reid Kleckner
     12 Frank Wierzbicki
     12 Alex Gaynor
     11 guido
     10 David Goodger
     10 Chui Tey
      9 unknown
      9 brian.curtin
      8 Samuele Pedroni
      8 Kushal Das
      7 Sean Reifschneider
      7 Martin v. Loewis
      7 Ken Manheimer
      7 Doug Hellmann
      7 Dirkjan Ochtman
      7 Chris Withers
      7 Christian Tismer
      7 briancurtin
      6 Dave Cole
      6 Ask Solem
      5 Peter Moody
      5 Marc-Andre Lemburg
      5 Felix Crux
      4 Walter Doerwald
      4 Rusi
      4 Martin Blais
      4 Jerry Seutter
      3 Matt Fleming
      2 Ralf Schmitt
      2 Paul Moore
      2 Nicholas Riley
      2 krisvale
      2 Jeremy Kloth
      2 David Ascher
      2 bquinlan
      2 Alexis Metaireau
      1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
      1 Robert Jordens
      1 orsenthil
      1 Gerhard Haering
      1 David Scherer
      1 Daniel Holth
      1 Charles G. Waldman
      1 Atsuo Ishimoto