Hi Alfred, Hey Sergey, nice to see people still lurk about!
Notice that README-alpha is not a "checkout_only_file". It is distributed with any alpha release as well (i.e. whenever the version number contains two dots). So, in my opinion, using it instead of README-hacking is a wrong move. Maybe a better wording could be used in README-alpha? I just don't understand why those instructions have to be in a seperate file.
