On 07/10/04  Andrew Cowie wrote:

> The best I can come up with is a contribution system similar to
> voting:
> 
> An infrastructure level change tied to Portage in which if someone
> builds something that is ~arch and finds that it is stable, then an
> email (gpg signed, perhaps, to avoid the usual spam issues?) gets
> fired off (on command, after user has had time to consider things) to
> some aggregator which keeps stats on ebuild versions. That way, a
> somewhat objective sense of progress and stability can be built up on
> a per ebuild (or perhaps, per version) basis.

That's what gentoo-stats was/is about, not sure about the current status
though.

Marius

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