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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:42:30 +1000
Subject: Re: Improving Idle (was Re: Python 3 ...)
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the IDLE bug-tracker exist to *SOLVE* problems or to
> *PERPETUATE* them?

Definitely the latter. If it weren't for that tracker, bugs would just
quietly die on their own. The PSU has a roster for feeding the bugs,
changing their litter, and all other bug-related duties, and when
someone goes on holidays and forgets to schedule a replacement, heaps
of bugs just inexplicably die. (The PSU generally conceals this faux
pas under the name of a "release".)

ChrisA