On 7/18/2015 7:50 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
Considering CPython is officially accepting performance improvements
I was not exactly aware of that.
to 2.7, surely bug fixes are also allowed?
Of course, allowed. But should they be made, and if so, by who?
I have contributed both performance improvements and bug fixes to 2.7.
In my experience, the problem is not the lack of contributors, it's
the lack of code reviewers.
I understand the general problem quite well. But feeling that one would
have to do a 2.7 backport after writing, editing, or reviewing a 3.x
patch can discourage doing a review in the first place. I am at that
point now with respect to Idle patches.
I think this is something everyone should care about. The really great
thing about working on a project like Python is that not only do you
help the programmers who use Python, but also the users who use the
software that those programmers create. Python 2.7 is important in the
software ecosystem of the world. Fixing bugs and making performance
improvements can sometimes significantly help the >1B people who use
the software written in Python 2.7.
-- Devin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
I asked the following as an off-topic aside in a reply on another thread. I
got one response which presented a point I had not considered. I would like
more viewpoints from 2.7 users.
Background: each x.y.0 release normally gets up to 2 years of bugfixes,
until x.(y+1).0 is released. For 2.7, released summer 2010, the bugfix
period was initially extended to 5 years, ending about now. At the spring
pycon last year, the period was extended to 10 years, with an emphasis on
security and build fixed. My general question is what other fixes should be
made? Some specific forms of this question are the following.
If the vast majority of Python programmers are focused on 2.7, why are
volunteers to help fix 2.7 bugs so scarce?
Does they all consider it perfect (or sufficient) as is?
Should the core developers who do not personally use 2.7 stop backporting,
because no one cares if they do?
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