Discussed last year - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29814345" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29814345</a><p>They migrated to Github Issues a year ago, so this is moot - <a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-are-now-live/14967" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-are-now-live/1496...</a><p>Yes it was a big, hairy investment for someone to submit a tiny change. But it was also the gigantic moat that kept bad actors away. I for one am thankful core python remains clean and safe because of this.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's a problem with Python as an organization, but rather an artifact of the popularity of Python and the legal protection it now must muster.