[gentoo-dev] Proposal for an unstable branch

[Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hello

Now as the freeze is coming along I was thinking 
that we could have an unstable branch, wich would
be for development ebuilds which are not considered
stable enough for the "stable" distribution yet.

Currently unstable ebuilds are avaiable either
masked in the portage tree, or from the authors
homepage, which is quite unconvenient if I want
to check whether someone has already worked
on some app. 

The submittal of ebuilds to the unstable tree could
be made easier than to the stable tree, so the
core developers would not be forced to confirm
each upload. The unstable tree would of course 
not be officially supported. This would also 
solve the problem about development versions
in the stable portage tree.

- Einar Karttunen