On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Therese Godefroy via RT wrote: > 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.
Maybe Ali is foreign and does not speak English. This matter would really be easily solved if there would be ONE responsible person doing the job. Nobody takes this in the manner of a classic sale. And that is exactly how these type of inquiries shall be handled. Instead of this mess of conversation, there shall be one individal on side of FSF responsible to welcome, greet, and help the new applicants for free system distributions! And that means, immediately putting the contact information into the database, calling the applicant, welcoming the applicant, giving him necessary resources, downloading the distribution, verifying the checklist, submitting timely the work online on pages so that people can see the progress, and so on, and so on until the distribution is accepted or need corrections. So that is the single problem here. We say too many grandmothers, lazy will be the grandchild. Finally, THAT is the reason why GNU project started, to have free software systems. Now, there is somebody from Uruk, asking on a mailing list, and nobody is really handling that matter. Guys, don't be bureaucratic. Get some 50 cents and VoIP SIP account, call the admin of Uruk GNU/Linux, contact by email, do your best, assign one person to do the checklist and have somebody do the final evaluation. Jean