Okay, so let's say I'd spent a little bit of time writing a simple and efficient weblog application using Rails, and I wanted to release said application, but I wanted to run a quick private beta test first to make sure it works for everyone. What would I do?
Perhaps I would ask anyone interested in testing this Rails weblog application to send an email to garrett at maniacalrage dot net, with the subject "I want to test your app," and then I would send this app to those people and they would play with it for a few days and report everything was fine and then I would release the app under the GPL and such.
Right. And in case anyone was curious, I would tell them that the app is basically a better version of the app I built to run this site, made easier to configure and install and use.
Update: Wow, okay, we've got enough. Thanks!