I have noticed that the people asking for the beta loader to be released as a public beta are generally the people who havent contributed too much to the forums , but instead asked silly questions over and over.
Those that have contributed are generally saying its a bad idea and i know exactly why.
With the previous release of the software , the only people that really came into the thread were those that were looking for help and wanting answers to their problems and not bothering to read back through the thread.
I believe a beta release of v0.3 , especially with known issues is just asking for these same people to post questions about the known issues over and over again so i think its best to keep it as a private project until most of the issues can be ironed out.
Granted if issues are still being seen and new blood is required for testing , i think it shoudl be in a limited fashion until more problems can be replicated.
A mass release of this , though in theory good , will lead to too many posting and no real progress a bit like the way this thread has become now.