Hello all,

Many of you will have seen that Taco Hoekwater has set up 'TLContrib' as 
a way of distributing material outside of the main TeX Live repositories.

   http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/

One use of this is for testing pre-release material. The expl3 and 
xpackages bundles are obvious candidates for this. To allow more testing 
on the 'snapshots' that get sent to CTAN periodically, I'll be aiming to 
keep the TLContrib grabs up to date on a regular basis. As the process 
is a lot more automated than using CTAN, I'm hoping to make this perhaps 
weekly. In that way I'm hoping that interested parties can spot any 
issues with expl3 and xpackages before it gets inflicted on everyone via 
CTAN!
-- 
Joseph Wright