Welcome, Private Alpha users!

I would like to start off by thanking you for helping me by evaluating Regionerate.
Your help means a lot to me since you are the first users of Regionerate and your input will help identify problems at an early phase.
I’d like to quickly cover the plan of releasing Regionerate first, and then follow by describing how you fit in.

The Plan

Regionerate’s release is planned as follows:

Private Alpha (v0.2.0.0) – First try version, partial features. Participants are asked to give a “go” or “no-go” for the product.

Private Beta (v0.4.0.0) – Bugs fixed, more features. Participants are asked to integrate Regionerate in their daily job.

Public Beta (v0.6.0.0) – More bugs fixed, complete features for v1.0. Participants are asked to integrate Regionerate in their daily job.

Release Candidate (v0.8.0.0) – Complete features for v1.0, stable version.

Release (v1.0.0.0)

Regionerate’s Private Alpha version (also known as v0.2.0.0) is a preliminary edition of Regionerate and it includes most basic features:

C# lexical analysis mechanism,

Layout mechanism,

A Visual Studio.NET 2005 plugin,

The Type Template schema.

These features are the basic core of Regionerate and I have paid most of the attention to them.
Using your input, I will work to improve and stabilize these features for the Private Beta release.
The Private Beta release (also known as v0.4.0.0) will also include these features:

Notifications mechanism,

Verification mechanism,

Command-line utility.

Combined with documentation, the Public Beta (v0.6.0.0) will include all features of the first Release version of Regionerate.

Your Job

You are asked to evaluate v0.2.0.0 for a week. The nature of your evaluation is totally up to you – you can “play” with it on dummy projects & classes and you can actually try working with it.

Please make sure you give attention to the following subjects:

• Usability – Do you find Regionerate’s Visual Studio.NET plugin intuitive?
• Accuracy – Did Regionerate lose any information in the way? (e.g. lost methods, corrupted fields etc.)
• Did Regionerate follow the Type Template correctly? Did all find all code elements in the right places after running Regionerate?
• Performance – Does it run smoothly without interrupting the Visual Studio.NET user experience?

How’s

v0.2.0.0 is planned for release on Sunday, May 20th, 2007.
I will make sure you get an installed copy on the week between Sunday, May 20th and Thursday, May 24th.

Regionerate’s website can be found at http://www.rauchy.net/regionerate. Right now, there isn’t much content there, but I will set up a private site for Private Alpha in the next couple of days, which you will have access to.

The Private Alpha website will contain a forum in which I will ask you to post your bugs, thoughts and complaints. Please try to post your thoughts as soon as you can, as I would rather not sit all week and wait for the replies and then have them all showered upon me in a couple of days.

I will post again when the Private Alpha website will be up. Meanwhile, you will receive updates from Regionerate’s Development Blog about the status of development.

Thanks!

 

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