14 votes now! Star mostly devuan, some debian is on 140 votes :)
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Jim Murphy <srlinuxad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:49 AM, fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> 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@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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