Yes, things are "checkable-outable" AFAIK. Sorry about the lack of communication, I pinged Vinod and Roberto a few days ago and just got word back that the installation document should be ready in a few days.
That's really all I need to convince myself that we can issue a beta release of what we've got. I also need to check with the infiniteinfo folks to see if their recently ported adserver and other packages are ready to go.