
Feb. 1, 2011
12:24 a.m.
If you don't want to receive a stupid answer, why don't you read the link and say what you don't like in this approach in a constructive manner?
As I understand it, there used to be patches@python.org. I'm not sure why this was discontinued, so perhaps someone more senior should chime in. :)
As a mailing list, it was unmaintainable, since there was no tracking of what patches still need consideration. So a web-based bug tracker got into use (although I forgot the name of the tracker software that was used before SourceForge). Regards, Martin