Am 17.01.2014 06:34, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014, at 06:03 PM, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: >> I never got the impression that this was a matter of funding, Nick. >> And while I completely understand that core developers enjoy working in 3 >> much more, it was decided to not accept any improvements for a +2.7 >> version even from those that would do so voluntarily. This could have be >> done without making any commitment to release a 2.8 at any point. >> This is why I drew the comparison. There are barriers put in place to >> try to achieve a social engineering result. > > It's not a matter of simply accepting any improvements for 2.7 even from > volunteers. If 2.8 happened, among other things people would have to > - make releases (building installers, etc) > - review new features > - triage bugs > - fix bugs in new features > - maintain yet another branch > > It would surely add overhead for everyone.
Especially since "accept improvements" means making sure the end product is of the same quality as 2.7 was. Georg _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers