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And that's just what he did until someone showed up to do the grunt work of porting to Python 3, at which point he co-operated with that person and helped make the port happen, just as he said he would. I suggest a more facts based narrative in the future.

List of all python3 PRs merged by the developer in minutes to hours: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+py3

It's fine if his software is not for you, but Kovid Goyal is the real deal.

And his claim wasn't that he would keep a generally-viable fork of Python 2 going, but that he would maintain the parts of it that he used in his Python 2 application. He wasn't trying to out-code the whole Python core team or something silly like that.

I’m not saying he’s a solid dev. But I can also understand why some of his statements might raise an eyebrow, especially if taken out of context.

> It’s the guy who said he’ll single-handedly going to keep Python 2 alive?

I don't know about that, but he's extremely competent, so I wouldn't be too surprised.

I mean he's also the chief dev of calibre so that's a gold star