> ...where are all the subscribers of this list? How should we ever > get enough positive votes for a package if nobody cares?
...and... > Please note, *all* maintainers are welcome to give his/her voice for > a new package. What about non-maintainers? I'd be perfectly happy to try out packages (I've used doxygen before, and ELFIO just looks neat.) I've not done so in the past because I didn't think that my vote would be considered, and I'm not really sure what I would need to do in order to give a worthwhile evaluation (just install the binary package & run? Check on install locations? Look for missing files? Run a test suite? Try to build from source?) If you are willing to count votes from non-maintainers, then some guidelines for how to do an evaluation would be useful. A fairly simple and straightforward checklist to follow would probably be enough for most folks to work off of. -Samrobb
