> I think you are mistaken. I don't think that people looking for support raise 
> bug requests.

There is *plenty* of evidence to the contrary, please trust me on that.

> The home page has an explicit "Alternative download page for China". (Why 
> China?)

Please also trust that there is a very good reason for that link which
I'm not going to reveal in public (else there is a risk that it becomes
pointless).

I remain -1 on adding a link to the tracker to www.python.org. As long
as we cannot really cope with the flood of bug reports that we get,
there is little point in making the tracker more prominent. Plus, using
Google is an established, useful practice, and it comes as the first
hit when searching for "Python bug tracker". "Python issue tracker"
brings it only as the second link, with the 2.7.2 documentation on
"Reporting bugs" being the first link.