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 <ce...@decebal.nl> >>>>> 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list