Stable request

This article describes the procedure for moving an ebuild from testing to stable.

Configuration
It is preferred that testing take place on a real system, inside a chroot, or within another type of non-virtualised container. Virtualisation may be acceptable in situations where it is not possible or practical to test on real hardware.

The testing system must only have stable packages installed, with no testing packages keyworded or unmasked. It should be up-to-date, and it is recommended to have as a few packages installed as possible.

make.conf should have settings similiar to the following:

amd64

 * Any developer may perform stabilisations - it is not necessary to be on the arch team
 * must be added to

x86

 * Any developer may perform stabilisations - it is not necessary to be on the arch team
 * It is acceptable to stabilise in an chroot on