Originally Posted by Thaoky
Computer CPU/Memory Hogging: Too subjective too.. I don't want to start a debate about this, but everybody has his opinion on what a "bloated" addon is. Some people think that and addon that eats 5mb of memory is fine, some other find it bloated.. but if the addon manages a lot of data, then it's simply normal, and it's not necessarily poorly coded.
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Opinion doesn't have to come into play. There are ways to store 5MiB worth of data and still have a sleak fast addon... and ways to store that same data in such a way that it is slow to load and uses more memory than it should. "Bloated" feature-wise is subjective, but code-wise it's not really very subjective at all. Just for examples sake, take ye olde ReagentData addon. It's DB was nasty, wasted tons of space, and took AGES to load on login. The same data, when stored differently, takes almost no time to load on login and is "expanded" on-demand as it is needed. thus delaying the cost till later and never expanding the entire database unless the entire database is queried. RD was bloated, not because of it's large database, but because of how it handled it.
Originally Posted by Thaoky
Promoting addons differently, and maybe more often could be nice. For instance, I could imagine that every week, one "big" addon could be introduced (like omen/x-perl/etc..) and a few smaller ones that answer a specific user need could be put in the spotlight.
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Actually, a thought... we could have something like WoWWiki's featured articles. There's already the "15 minutes of fame" thing, but why not a pool of addons with short reviews, a new one is randomly picked every day and shown on the right side for everyone that visits that day. It could start with a half dozen addons, then more get added over time as reviews get written.