14 votes now!

Star mostly devuan, some debian is on 140 votes :)

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Jim Murphy <srlinuxadmin@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:49 AM, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
> > On 08/29/2016 05:11 PM, Jim Murphy wrote:
> >> FYI, DistroWatch[1] added Refracta[2] to their waiting list.
> >>
> >> Description:
> >>
> >> Refracta is a Devuan-based operating system which includes
> >> several tools to help create CD/USB images of the live system.
> >>
> >> Hopefully more Devuan-based distributions to come.
> >>
> >> Congratulations to all those working on Refracta!
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> [1] http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?pollnumber=64&myaction=
> NewVote&issue=20160822&newvote=8#waiting
> >>
> >> [2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Refracta
>
> >
> > Wow. Thanks!
> >
> > -fsr
>
> I wish I had known about the following while Devuan was on
> the waiting list.
>
> First, if this a know thing, I apologize for the noise.
>
> I don't know how DistroWatch has this set up, but it appears
> you can "recommend", causing the vote count to increment
> by one, a distribution on the waiting list. Not sure how much
> weight this has on moving a distribution to their database,
> but it may help. It also appears to be a one time vote for only
> one distribution per device(haven't been able to totally verify
> this). I found this by accident, and searching DistroWatch and
> searching on the web returned negative results on this
> "feature".
>
> How to get there. Go to distrowatch.com. Select "DW Weekly"
> at the top of the page. Scroll down to the Content section and
> select "New additions: ...". In this section towards the bottom
> you will find "DistroWatch database summary" showing the
> number of distributions in each category. The one starting with
> "Number of distributions waiting for evaluation:" you need to
> click on "evaluation".
>
> This should(on your first try) display the list of distributions with
> a button labeled "Recommend". You should find the distribution
> you would like to recommend and select the "Recommend"
> button on the right. Upon selection it will change the page to
> show the number of votes and no "Recommend" buttons.
>
> Any subsequent time selecting "evaluation" will take you to the
> page and only display the votes. If there is a reset to let you
> vote again(after some period of time) I don't know. I would
> hope there is, in case you wanted to recommend some new
> distribution that shows up on the list. Maybe it is like the polls,
> and is a weekly thing.
>
> I was able to vote again by using my phone. This is how I was
> able to verify the information shown above. So it would appear
> that you can vote from different devices.
>
> As there are(at the time of this writing) 7 votes for Refracta, I
> assume others know how to do this.
>
> FWIW,
>
> Jim
> _______________________________________________
> Dng mailing list
> Dng@???
> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
>