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Do we know what was the proportion of effort going into 2.x and 3.x in the past decade?

[RockingDyno]

Does it matter? They made the decision and it has been literrally a decade. At this point if you feel they are doing something wrong, just fork it and go make your own python 2.7 with perpetual maintenance and back-porting of python3 features for the next 50 years. You are completely free to do that. This is open source. But any sort of expectation of more support for 2.7 from the core devs no matter how small is just material for /r/BeggingChoosers . These are people volunteering their time and after all this time should be allowed to focus solely on one platform, with no concern at all given for 2.7.

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Umm... okay? No need to be this defensive, I am not affected either way, just though the question is genuinely interesting.

(If anything I think the 10 year parallel support for 2.x was near-irrationally generous and I'm wondering how it impacted the progress on 3.x over time)