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Hello all.

So, python 2.7 is in bugfix only mode.� ‘trunk’ is off limit.� So, where does one make improvements to the distinguished, and still very much alive, 2.x series of Python?

The answer would seem to be “one doesn’t”. �But must it be that way?

When Morris stopped producing the Oxford III model back in ’57 in favor of new developments, it didn’t spell the end for it. ��The plant was sold to India and the Hindustan Ambassador continues to be developed and produced to this day.� It even has fuel injection.

The Morris Motor Company isn’t around anymore.

So, here is my suggestion:

Let’s move the current ‘trunk’ into /branches/afterlife-27.� Open it for submissions from people such as myself that use 2.7 on a regular basis and are willing to give it some extra love.� Host it there without the usual stringent python quality assurance, buildbot support, release management and all that rigmarole.� Open-source it, if you will.

Svn.python.org already plays host to some other, less official, projects such as stackless, so why not this?

What do you think?

Kristj�n