Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [gnu.org #1308285] add uruk gnu/linux to free list

[John Sullivan]

"Therese Godefroy via RT" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi John,
>
> On Thu Jul 19 15:40:58 2018, johns wrote:
> [...]
>> GNU webmasters have been very helpful in the past on this, and we'd
>> appreciate the same process being used going forward.
>> 
>> -john
>
> The matter is not whether webmasters are helping people who
> are supposed to evaluate distros, but whether the evaluation procedure is 
> helping the teams who are trying to build them.
> From what I have read, this procedure looks like an obstacle
> course in a dead-end street. Not very helpful for the
> prospective free distro maintainers.

Hyperbole won't help here. We just revamped and recommitted to the
distro evaluation process on this list recently. Did you read that
discussion?

We need to give time for the changes we made to work, and not disrupt
things with other changes.

The webmasters screening the initial requests is important to preserving
the signal to noise ratio on this list, which will help review move
along in a more organized fashion, which in turn will help get distros
that should be endorsed, endorsed.

-john

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