Just to clear up some confusion for many of the folks emailing me: the beta really is an open beta. The registration is just to file bugs. Now, of course, I’d love to have everyone filing bugs on 2.0, but it’s not strictly required. Just hit the development site and download a copy to start playing with it. That copy will expire on December 15th.

Also, if you’re testing, it would be very good to subscribe to the beta mailing list as well. It’s linked off the main development page.