Hi Nicholas, 2008/3/27, Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > How about doing an "early release pre-Alpha test CD" but not > advertising it. > The people most interested will probably know from this list that it's > there and can try it out if they want. > > I hope to have a new laptop soon and I'd like to try it myself. > I've used plenty of Alphas before so I know exactly what it is... I like that idea. I actually thought a lot of doing something like this: I hope to assemble a Haiku alpha 1 testing pool of a group of 5-10 volunteers that will be testing diverse aspects of alpha 1 on their machines. Since the priorities at this moment are the booting from the CD, installing and partitioning (almost in that order), I hope to be able to intensively test that for 2-3 weeks, while continually giving feedback to the devs which should in theory make for a good testing experience. Anyway, that's for when some of my other projects wrap up. Unless someone wants to try to plan that with me. N.