Terry Reedy wrote: > "Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>The whole point of moving *from* SF *to* another bug tracker is to >>improve the situation, surely. > > > The current situation is that the limitations and intermittant failures of > the SF tracker sufficiently impede the Python development process that some > people were motivated to do the work to find a better alternative. > > >>You already seem to acknowledge that using free-software tools to >>develop Python is desirable. > > > The committee already said so by saying that with other things equal, it > would choose Roundup. > > >>I don't see why you're being so obtuse > > > I think name calling is out of line here. > Correct, besides which Ben seems to feel people are disagreeing on the desirability of using open source software when in fact they are mostly disagreeing about the *practicality* in this particular instance.
Compellingly absent from most critics' output is a statement to the effect that they will volunteer their time to encourage the adoption of Roundup, which is excluded only by the absence of a support infrastructure. Time to shit or get off the pot, I'd say. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
