Make this a little bit less hilariously out of date.

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a list of people willing to handle bug reports and their areas of
expertise.
These are guidlines for the developers of Python, not the
submitters of bugs. Those are at
http://docs.python.org/lib/reporting-bugs.html
(though this hardly seems the best place).
Guidelines
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request", "later", and "closed"; and add a comment to the bug
saying that this is the case (mentioning the PEP explicitly).
XXX do we prefer the feature request tracker or PEP 42?
3. Assign the bug a reasonable priority. We don't yet have a
clear sense of what each priority should mean, except than 9 is
highest and 1 is lowest. One rule, however, is that bugs with
priority seven or higher must be fixed before the next release.
4. If a bug report doesn't have enough information to allow you to
reproduce or diagnose it, send email to the original submittor
and ask for more information. If the original report is really
thin and your email doesn't get a response after a reasonable
waiting period, you can close the bug.
reproduce or diagnose it, ask the original submitter for more
information. If the original report is really thin and your
email doesn't get a response after a reasonable waiting period,
you can close the bug.
5. If you fix a bug, mark the status as "Fixed" and close it. In
the comments, include the CVS revision numbers of the
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SourceForge bug number *and* a normal description of the
change.
6. If you are assigned a bug that you are unable to deal with
assign it to someone else. The guys at PythonLabs get paid to
fix these bugs, so pick one of them if there is no other
obvious candidate.
6. If you are assigned a bug that you are unable to deal with,
assign it to someone else if you think they will be able to
deal with it, otherwise it's probably best to unassign it.
References