Re: [Boost-users] Vote Boost Up for SourceForge Project of the Month

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Vote Boost Up for SourceForge Project of the Month
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-20 12:23:48

on Thu Jan 19 2012, Dmitriy Matison <matison.d-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave:
>
> As to me, such polls are made not for calculation of active mail-list
> users of the given projects. Even if there is nothing told in rules
> (http://is.gd/cQYIrs) about it, it seems the general rule is not to
> ask for crowd-voting in external communities. For sure this leaves the
> question how one could rightly evaluate unknown products from the list
> and does he want to spend his time on it. This poll is dubious.

Well, the person at sourceforge giving the poll suggested to all
contenders that we ask our community to vote the project up, so it's not
like we're subverting its intent.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com