Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Monday 20 July 2015 13:30, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:35 am, Rick Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I figured that was you *MARK LAWRENCE*. I shall add sock-puppeting
>>> to your many egregious offenses! And poorly executed sock-puppeting
>>> as well! You're a zero.
>>
>> Rick, what the hell are you talking about? Mark is using the same email
>> address as he has always used (unlike a certain person who shall remain
>> unnamed, but used to go by the names RR and Ranting Rick and possibly
>> others).
> 
> Not quite; one is @yahoo.co.uk, and the other is @gmail.com.

Ah, so they are. You're right, I was wrong, they're not the same email 
address. But still, accusations of sock-puppetry from a change in email 
provider is unreasonable, and I believe that Rick should acknowledge that he 
over-reacted.


> If the
> great Ranting Rick can't tell that these belong to the same person
> just based on the local part, then what chance do we mere mortals
> have?



-- 
Steve