Pandora Early Beta Program

This program has been designed to provide its participants with access to an early beta version of Pandora that can be exercised in order to identify possible major issues that could be detrimental to its general usability.

The version offered in this program is Pandora beta 0.3.

The program is held during the week of February 20, 2006 for a period of 7 days.

To participate in the Pandora Early Beta Program, send a request by email to the Pandora Project Administrator, Julian I. Kamil.

Getting the code

The Pandora beta 0.3 code is available to program participants at the following location:

Pandora beta 0.3 download page (limited distribution)

To access the code, you must have a registered user account at the Ruby Veil Pandora Project Site, which may be obtained by completing the form that will appear after selecting the ‘Account’ menu item at the following address:

http://pandora.rubyveil.com/pandora/Pandora

There is a bundled documentation package in the library, which can also be accessed online at:

http://pandora.rubyveil.com/pandora/Pandora/Documentation/Documentation

Discussing and reporting issues

During the beta test period, the Pandora Project Administrator will be available to answer questions and for discussions through Yahoo! IM with the following ID:

pandora.rubyveil@yahoo.com

In addition, there will be two daily online meetings through Yahoo! IM, at 14:00 EST (US Eastern Standard Time / GMT – 5) and at 20:00 EST to discuss any issues or questions that may arise. All participants are invited to join the discussions in these meetings.

Participants may also start or join discussion threads in this discussion forum at RubyForge:

Pandora-Early-Beta-Program Discussion Forum

Possible issues and defects must be filed using the Bug Tracking System at the RubyForge Pandora Project Site, at the following address:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/pandora/

Issue categories

Please file possible issues and defects under the group 0.3 beta (limited) and one of the following issue categories:

Documentation

Installation and Configuration

User Management

Library Management

Page Contents Editing

Page Properties Editing

Page History Management

Silk Veil

Classic Design

Browser Issues

OS Issues

Others

Use the User Management category to report issues in the user account registration, password change, and other user account related issues.

Use the Library Management category to report issues in the use of books, designs, and applications libraries.

Use the Classic Design category to report issues in the ‘Classic’ design template (“skin”) that ships with Pandora.

Use the Browser Issues and OS Issues categories to report issues that are specific to browser versions and operating systems versions. Please indicate full detail of the user agent, including its identification string, if possible, when reporting browser issues.