Thread by @vdWijden

So twitter's spam protection kicked in and I can not answer all the people who contacted me about #TestingTheMerge, so I need to publish the message I'm sending everyone here:

Hey,
Great that you're interested in joining the testing efforts.
I'm a bit overwhelmed with the amount of responses I got, so I'm currently thinking about how to onboard so many new people to get them started as smoothly as possible.

I'll try to create three different classes of tasks; for users/non-technical testers, for technical testing and for testers that are very familiar with the inner workings of ethereum.

This might take me a couple of days, but you can follow the progress here: hackmd.io/WKpg6SNzQbi1jV….
A great first step is to startup a node and join the testnet, preliminary documentation for that is here: hackmd.io/dFzKxB3ISWO8ju…

(will be cleaned up and extended soon, hopefully by some of you!).
Till then you could already join the Ethereum R&D discord (discord.gg/ymADJTVUY5) which is used by the Core Devs to discuss technical topics.

We will mainly use the #testing channel in the #merge category to discuss.
Please keep chatter on there to a minimum as a lot of people are reading it.
Cool to have you joining!
Best, Marius