Has anybody interest in forking the python project and continuing to maintain 2.7 until forever? And by "maintain" I mean no new features, just bug fixes and performance improvements. Maybe if we find enough volunteers we can pull that off.

There is still much useful and valuable legacy software out there that many people use which is getting abandoned for no other reason than some people (like the authors of calibre) are not very fond of the direction python is going. Others can't upgrade to 3.x because you have standard libraries especially in the academic sector that people literally put their whole phd into and that can not "easly" be upgraded just like that because of high complexity, lack of staff and time.