This feels kind of entitled, to be honest. The core devs don't owe you indefinite support for your chosen version. Absolutely they get to decide when they want to stop supporting it (and they already gave it a ridiculously extended support lifetime!).
The PSF also owns the "Python" trademark and the whole purpose of trademarks is to prevent confusion about who made something, i.e. exactly the kind of confusion a Python 2.8 that isn't made by the same people who made Python 2.7 would have caused.
Entitled to the name perhaps, but _not_ entitled to indefinite support by the core devs.
> The core devs don't owe you indefinite support for your chosen version. Absolutely they get to decide when they want to stop supporting it (and they already gave it a ridiculously extended support lifetime!).
I agree! I said the users of Python 2 should be able to pool effort to continue to support Python 2.
Yet, there is a lot of sentiment in this thread that whether Python 2 should continue to be used should be tied to whether the Python core devs are still supporting it. Similarly, there is widespread sentiment that e.g. Linux distros should drop Python 2 and packaging Tauthon in its place doesn't even make it to the agenda.
> The PSF also owns the "Python" trademark and the whole purpose of trademarks is to prevent confusion about who made something, i.e. exactly the kind of confusion a Python 2.8 that isn't made by the same people who made Python 2.7 would have caused.
I'm well aware that the PSF is legally entitled to exclude Tauthon from being called Python 2.8. It's still not particularly nice towards the users of the language who bet on Python 2 and who'd benefit from easy discovery of Tauthon.
Imagine if Stroustrup had gone on to develop the language that's in reality called D but insisted that it be called C++ and the language everyone else knows as C++ be renamed if developed further in a backward-compatible way.
Once there is no longer a Python 2.x by the Python core devs to confuse Tauthon with, it's arguably more confusing for Python 2 and Python 3 to share a name but Python 2.x and Tauthon not to. (For clarity, the previous sentence is not a legal argument. I'm well aware that the public who could be confused about names doesn't have standing under trademark law.)
The PSF also owns the "Python" trademark and the whole purpose of trademarks is to prevent confusion about who made something, i.e. exactly the kind of confusion a Python 2.8 that isn't made by the same people who made Python 2.7 would have caused.
The new name, for what it's worth, is Tauthon: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon