Ben Finney wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>And I'd prefer it if you'd drop this subject. So, if you have >>nothing new to say, kindly leave it. > > > I'm happy to, but: > > >>You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing >>effort to support the open source tracker. > > > This was addressed in a previous post. I don't have the skills nor the > resources to do this. Yes, as has been pointed out, it actually *is* > far less effort to point out problems, than to solve them. That > doesn't detract from the value of pointing out problems. > > This thread was started on the shock of realising that a non-free tool > was even being *considered* for the new Python bug tracker. Those are > the terms on which I've been arguing. > > Apparently there are some people who *have* put themselves forward to > support a free-software tool. Great! My point all along has been that > Python's developers are well advised to consider *only* free-software > tools for supporting development of Python, and that from among those > the best tool for the job should be chosen. > > As you say, nothing new has been said now for a while, so in the > absence of that I'm happy to leave it here. > In case readers are puzzled by the absence of the message to which Ben replies above I should perhaps explain that I cancelled it having decided that its language was immoderate and unfair to Ben.
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