Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

[Terry Reedy]

"Giovanni Bajo" <noway at sorry.com> wrote in message 
news:YzoVg.137036$zy5.1843214 at twister1.libero.it...
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having to wait 
> 48-72hrs
> to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable for Python development? It 
> looks
> like an overexaggeration. People easily cope with 2-3 days of SVN 
> freezing,
> when they are politically (rather than technically) stopped from 
> committing to
> SVN. I guess they can wait 48 hrs to be able to close that bug, or open 
> that
> other one, or run that query.

I think tracker downtime is quite possibly worse than repository downtime. 
The small group of developers with SVN commit privileges are committed 
enough to come back and commit their code a couple of days later.  A member 
of the community wanting to make a bug report is less likely too.  As it 
is, when SF is up, people think having to register or even log in is too 
much of a burden.  When SF is down, people sometimes send tracker items to 
the pydev list instead, when means someone else (who?) has to put in the 
tracker or it gets lost.