Neal's message is this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070406.html
and it refers to the 2.5.1 release, not prior to it.

As you see, I refrained from both increasing the priority and assigning it to Neal, and actually just added a comment to the case with a related question, since I know you are the one responsible for the windows build and you already had assigned the bug to you. My adding this comment to the bug was nothing more or less than the action that felt appropriate, and still does feel appropriate to me (ie I didn't overstep any limits).

The "we" was just all parties interested, and in this case, the ones I know are at least you (responsible for the windows build) and I (a user of Tix on windows).

Happy new year, Martin!