Our guidance for how changes to the website should be approved by team members are outlined in our documentation:
As far as “evaluating”/reviewing tools the methods to do so are not documented for the reasons @Niek-de-Wilde stated, and of course vary widely depending on what kind of tool we are looking at, but it generally comes down to confirming conformance with the established criteria for the category.
In any case…
Kevin’s statement is correct, but I think what Niek and I want to make clear that “consensus” is not “democracy” and ultimately if we don’t think there is consensus in the community on recommending a certain tool then the team will not recommend that tool even if a majority of people on this forum want it added or it receives many votes. This is a collaborative community, not a competition for majority rule.