Jason Wharton wrote:

> All,
>
> I am now ready for alpha testing for those who are Ok working with the raw
> sources. I still have more development work that needs to be taken care of
> before I can say I am ready for Beta testing. My definition of Beta meaning
> I have a release candidate.
>

Thanks for this, Jason. But please be aware of social implications of
'Alpha', 'Beta', 'Release Candidate', 'Gold' etc. Labeling a product
with a wrong label will not give you the correct feedback in order to
help you in shaping of your product. For example labeling it 'Alpha'
when the community mindset would apply a 'Beta' instead will induce some
secondary (unwanted) effects. Eg. very few will try to tackle an 'Alpha'
to test, rather than a 'Beta'. Imho, try to find what 'Alpha', 'Beta'
(etc.) means for the community and apply the correct label. (I can help
you a little, if you want).

> This has been a tremendous amount of work touching nearly every aspect of
> IBO. There will yet be some problems and irritations in migrating over
> applications. I did my best to try and make IBO as easy as possible to
> buffer most of the necessary changes.
>
>

Kudos! :-) But you'll have complaints. The trackers are ready on
SourceForge. Be sure to be responsive on requests. It will help a lot
not so much to fix the bugs quickly, rather than showing to the
community that you 'do care'. No, this *isn't* obvious. 'Taking care'
it's an _emotional_ human artifact, not a _rational_ one. You must
tactically remind them (us).

> All those who would like to do alpha testing please send me a private email
> requesting the raw sources.
>

Yep. Done. Check your eMail. :-)

> Regards,
> Jason Wharton
>
>

hth & just my2c,

m.th.