Here are the tallied results from this thread [http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/VOTE-alpha-optional-packages VOTE: alpha optional packages] in the haiku-development mailing list.

Ticket #4284 has been created with preliminary results.

== SVN Contributors ==
You should all have wiki access, and thus can place your vote here directly.


=== BeBook, BePDF, CVS, Development, Firefox, OpenSSH, Pe, P7zip, Subversion, Nano, Welcome ===
 * For
  * axeld
  * pulkomandy
  * mmadia
  * korli
  * ingo
  * aldeck
  * mmlr
  * scottmc
  * umccullough
  * stippi
 * Against

=== Vision ===
 * For
  * pulkomandy
  * mmadia
  * mmu_man
  * phoudoin
  * ryan
  * jorge
  * urnenfeld
  * jonas
  * umccullough
  * korli
  * ingo
  * aldeck
  * mmlr
  * axeld
  * scottmc
  * stippi
 * Against

=== Clockwerk ===
 * For
  * jorge
  * urnenfeld
  * korli
  * mmlr
  * stippi
 * Against
  * -axeld
  * -pulkomandy	
  * -mmadia
  * ?phoudoin
  * -ingo
  * -aldeck
  * -scottmc

=== Wonderbrush ===
 * For 
  * mmadia
  * phoudoin
  * jorge
  * urnenfeld
  * korli
  * aldeck
  * mmlr
  * scottmc
  * stippi
 * Against
  * -axeld
  * -pulkomandy	
  * -dlmcpaul
  * -ingo

=== VLC ===
 * For
  * mmadia
  * mmu_man
  * urnenfeld
  * scottmc
 * Against
  * -pulkomandy
  * -axeld
  * -jackburton
  * -aldeck
  * -dlmcpaul
  * -mmlr
  * -stippi

=== Python ===
 * For
  * axeld
  * scottmc
  * phoudoin
  * ingo (to support Mercurial VCS)
  * ryan
  * aldeck
  * stippi
 * Against
 	
=== Tar ===
(note: tar is already in the tree.  is this a suggestion to remove tar, similar to vim? - this should be cleared first -- axeld.)
 * For
  * phoudoin
  * scottmc
 * Against	

=== Paladin ===
 * For
  * urnenfeld
  * scottmc
 * Against
  * -aldeck
  * -axeld
  * -stippi

=== MarkAs ===
 * For
  * aldeck
  * axeld
  * jorge
  * stippi
 * Against

=== Sample Code ===
 * For
  * dlmcpaul
  * ryan
 * Against
  * -aldeck (which ones? problems: not audited, too old, coding style)
  * -axeld (should indeed be cleaned up first)
  * -stippi (only because it's not cleaned up)

=== BeShare ===
 * For
  * jonas
 * Against
  * -umccullough
  * -aldeck
  * -axeld
  * -stippi (because it looks like Vision will be included)

=== Git ===
 * For
  * axeld
  * scottmc
  * umccullough
  * stippi
 * Against

=== Mercurial ===
 * For
  * axeld
  * umccullough
  * stippi
 * Against
  * -scottmc