Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
I believe Cecil was aware of this and wanted to stress: not everyone who needs a fix is also able to backport a corresponding patch. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list