Discussed last year -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29814345They migrated to Github Issues a year ago, so this is moot - https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-are-now-live/1496...
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.