It seems to me there's not that much text on how the tracker itself works. Only sections "Checking if a bug already exists" and "Reporting an issue" have this kind of information. The text in these sections seems to be mostly from http://docs.python.org/bugs.html, so it's not new content.

Other sections mostly deal with the way the tracker is used or should be used for the development of CPython.

I like the idea of this patch. As Antoine said, people usually know how to use web applications nowadays, so moving the info from http://docs.python.org/bugs.html to devguide (replacing it with a shorter description) sounds good.