As somebody who is still firmly in the 2.x world, I'm worried about the idea of a 2.x fork. While I have my doubts that 3.x was a good idea, the fact is, it's here. Having the community fractured between the two camps is not good. Let's say I'm somebody who wants to contribute some OSS. I have three basic choices:
1) I can make it 3.x only. Now, (nominally) half of the python community is unable to realize value from my contribution. 2) I can make it 2.x only. Same thing in reverse. 3) I can make it work on both 2.x and 3.x, which means I'm investing more effort than I had to if it were single platform. Any of those alternatives is worse than ideal. Forking 2.x to create an unofficial 2.8 release would just prolong the situation. As I've stated before, I don't see any urgency in moving to 3.x, and don't imagine doing there for another couple of years, but I absolutely can't imagine moving to a 2.8 fork. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
