Nope. I check everyday. I'm anxious to build with the new commits.
Some eye catching changes in CM7 as of late,
Not entirely sure if these changes are what I think they are... hardware acceleration in Gingerbread?
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/6831
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/7062
And an update to the Nook kernel, from Dalingrins twitter it seems it may only be one change having to do with USB support...
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/6995
any thoughts?
Beta testers come free, I'm using Firefox 8.0 alpha1 as my primary browser just to illustrate and have participated in beta testing Windows Vista and Windows 7; As far as employing developers, the "upline" Cyanogen Mod team is made up of around 10 members plus about 5 maintainers for the Nook. I'd imagine that about 5-6 full time employed developers could handle that workload(someone correct me if I'm wrong) at about $90,000 a year per developer, that's about half a million a year for a team. B&N 2010 revenue was 6.92 billion dollars just for example, I think they can afford a few full time developers, not to mention the much bigger companies like Samsung and Motorola.
Even with that said, Google does a good deal of the work, it seems companies must spend more time stripping out the features Google includes in AOSP than implementing useful features...
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that these companies could be doing a much better job with their Android ports, considering what some hobbyist and skilled developers produce in their free time...
COMPUTER> adb shell
# mkdir /data/bootmountpoint
# mkdir /data/systemmountpoint
# mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /data/bootmountpoint
# mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /data/systemmountpoint
# exit
COMPUTER> adb push mlo /data/bootmountpoint/
COMPUTER> adb push u-boot.bin /data/bootmountpoint/
COMPUTER> adb push uImage /data/bootmountpoint/
COMPUTER> adb push uRamdisk /data/bootmountoint/
COMPUTER> adb push my/path/to/sdcard/system /data/systemmountpoint/