Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:23:31 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 63 Message-ID: <87zj2rwx3g.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87y4icxh4r.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87egk3ykui.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87a8uryf2e.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="30955"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+itMFbqnux/oDJN9ZT+gHMW15F3LE1gl0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zPdLwOgLJ7MdZElFgCCkdjKgMMQ= sha1:FR1lQpgSg+KS5lam7aZAK/Xpaqo= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94176 On Monday 20 Jul 2015 00:51 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 19/07/2015 23:10, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 22:28 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >>> On 19/07/2015 21:05, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>>> On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 21:01 CEST, Ian Kelly wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>>>>> On Sunday 19 Jul 2015 15:42 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 19/07/2015 03:13, Terry Reedy wrote: >>>>>>>> On 7/18/2015 7:50 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >>>>>>>>> to 2.7, surely bug fixes are also allowed? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Of course, allowed. But should they be made, and if so, by >>>>>>>> who? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The people who want the fixes. >>>>>> >>>>>> Babies want clean diapers. So babies have to change diapers >>>>>> themselves? >>>>> >>>>> Poor analogy. Babies need others to change their diapers for >>>>> them because they're not capable of doing it for themselves. >>>> >>>> That is why I think it is good analogy. I think that most of the >>>> users of 2.7 who would be delighted with fixes would have no idea >>>> how to get those fixes into 2.7. >>>> >>> >>> They could try reading the development guide to start with, or is >>> that also too much to ask? >> >> My impression is that you and some other people are in an ivory >> tower and find it very cosy. >> >> It reminds me about the man on dry land who responded to the person >> who fell in water and shouted >> “Help, I cannot swim!” >> with >> “Why are you screaming? >> I cannot swim also. >> Do you hear me yelling about it?" >> > > You are now suggesting that people shouldn't even bother reading the > develoment guide, just great. Do they have to do anything themselves > to get patches through? Presumably the core devs give up their paid > work, holidays, families, other hobbies and the like, just so some > bunch of lazy, bone idle gits can get what they want, for nothing, > when it suits them? It appears that babies aren't the only people > who need their nappies changing around here. No use replying anymore. You make a caricature of what I am saying and put words in my mouth I never said. Just stay in your cosy ivory tower. But please do not pretend that you are open for discussion, because you are not. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof