On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 01:12:39AM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > > And from my experience of contributing to various FSDG distributions, > if a distribution ships big number of packages or software components, > asking the current maintainers to fix all the FSDG compliance bugs at > once is probably not going to work because doing that would probably > require multiple people working full time on most FSDG compliant > distributions. > > For instance there is a lot of third party package managers, and fixing > all the issues can take a very long time. And many distributions have > FSDG compliance bugs that are open for years. > > But maintainers usually welcome help, so if we provide them with fixes > that are really good and work out of the box, they usually accept them. > > If they don't accept fixes because they don't want the FSDG compliance > issue to be fixed, then that is probably sufficient to get the > distribution removed.
Then working on fixes may be even more important than reporting them. Currently, the page listing free distros [0] encourages people to report bugs; perhaps it should call for making fixes as well (and/or/but/yet better). The distro, on the other hand, might publish a short specific prominent HowTo for those who would like to submit a fix. Also, this passage from the FSDG [1] may surprise the visitors, especially the "promptly": Our requirement is for the distribution developers to have a firm commitment to promptly correct any mistakes that are reported to them. An exaggerated image of resources behind the distros not only leaves people disappointed---they often just don't realize they may, are welcome, are expected to contribute. [0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html#intro [1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html#mistakes
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