How about a points rating system such as the following? Every ebuild put into the portage tree with ~ARCH gets -30 points for each ARCH. For every day the ebuild is in portage, one point is added to the points up to a maximum of 30 points.
If a user installs the ebuild and finds that it does not work, that user can submit a failure report to www.gentoo.org. Upon submitting the failure a set amount of points are subtracted from the rating. If a user installs the ebuild and finds that it works, that user can submit a success report to www.gentoo.org. Upon submitting the success a set amount of points are added to the rating. If after 30 days the points value is 0 or more, the ebuild can be marked stable. Another advantage to this scheme is that users can determine the level of stability instead of just is it `stable' or unstable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
