On Thu Jul 19 08:46:19 2018, js...@gnu.org wrote: > There may be a misunderstanding then Thérèse;
If there was a misunderstanding, it was not on my part. Please check my last message to Ali; I clearly told him he had to contact gnu-linux-libre himself. And if I remember correctly this is what he did one year ago, and again 6 months ago... to no avail. My dealings with this list had to do with another ticket. > the GNU Webmastering > Guidelines had never asked for the Webmasters themselves to write to > the list. https://www.gnu.org/server/standards/#distros > #3 has that the requestor (not the Webmasters) write to the list after > the Webmasters have verified (in #1) that the people requesting are the > primary developers and (in #2) briefly checked that the distro is a > feasible candidate. Why don't you write this clearly in the webmastering guidelines? > > By the way, I wonder what webmasters have to do in this > > process, except acting as spam filter. > > That is effectively it, yes: To make sure that the people asking for > the endorsement are the right people, since only the primary developers > can request endorsement -- the users of the distro should be referred > back to the primary developers -- and to filter out distros that > clearly (based on only a brief examination) won't qualify. And this too. It may be useful to explain what you mean by "a brief examination". Best, Thérèse