Call for volunteers to help maintain bugs.python.org's issue tracker

[Duncan Booth]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> writes:
>> The Python Software Foundation's infrastructure committee is looking
>> for volunteers to help maintain the Roundup issue tracker installed
>> for http://bugs.python.org. Responsibilities revolve around
>> maintaining the Roundup installation itself (tracker schema, modifying
>> the installed copy of Roundup, etc.) and the occasional database work
>> (changes to the database, etc.).
> 
> Didn't Python.org choose the proprietary Roundup system over a free
> bug tracker precisely to avoid having to do that kind of maintainance?
> 

Ok, I'll bite. In what way is Roundup proprietary?

So far as I can tell it has a very unrestrictive license: maintain the 
copyright notice and otherwise do what you want, except for the parts 
derived from Zope which use the ZPL v2.0.