[gentoo-dev] policy for marking development branches of programs as stable?

[Kurt Lieber]

I just noticed that mutt-1.5.4-r1 was marked stable on x86.  The 1.5 branch
of mutt is the development branch -- 1.4 is the stable branch, similar to
the 2.4/2.5 kernel series.

It seems wrong to me that we would mark development branches of software as
stable.  The mutt developers, who presumably know mutt much better than any
of us do, don't feel 1.5 is stable -- who are we to disagree?

Do we have some sort of policy for this?  If not, can we make one?

--kurt