Ok,

I didn't want to be the one to post this thread but it seemed no one else was bringing up these subjects.

I cannot test the ROM myself right now for several reasons. I have a new computer that came with Vista so installing is more of a pain for me. I listed to audiobooks downloaded from my local libraries overdrive-based service which have a form of DRM on them to enforce a 14 day check-out period. Once loaded onto a device you have forever to listen to them, but after 14 days the version on your computer is gone and cannot be reloaded to the device. So, if I reload my OS I lose the audiobook I am in the middle of, which right now is 'The Coldest Winter' about the Korean War and is rather long. Third, I am writing the final pages of my MS thesis and I am rather busy.

But there is nothing wrong with me not being in a good situation to be a beta tester.
The bad thing will be if the people who do test the ROM do not test it in a good useful way and everyone ends up using some hacked combination of 3.16 beta, 2.17, other radios, 3rd party software, and registry hacks that they find most stable. Probably Sprint/HTC can't practically release such a frankenstein monster build. So, it would be nice if some of those testing 3.16 try to test it with a fairly vanilla install and try to find consensus on problems it has and list them concisely.

I see one thread on the problems of 3.16 and whether it is better or worse. The title and OP are riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. This is not the stuff that will convince Sprint/HTC that our community should be allowed to beta test. Beta testing is about finding bugs in what we are given so fixes can provide stability. It is not about hacking to find the best stability from present and past code cominations and then testing that combo of present and past code.

Even if the leak was not intentional. The response to the leak could still give Sprint/HTC a picture of how well beta testing officially would or would not work.

Again, I have no right to be the one saying this, it is just that nobody else did. I would hope that some responsible involved member of the community who is a better human being than me can attempt to start a new concise organized thread to document bugs, rather than building their own 3.16/2.16/7/Vogue/Kaiser/1.47/olipro/noextdrom/etc kitchen.