Tim Altman reports that Opera has decided to open things up even more and start weekly builds. A new blog is in place to keep track of the Desktop Browser weekly builds and any other issues that might come up.
Though not as thoroughly tested as a beta or even preview build, weeklies are great news for me, since there was a rather serious bug in the latest Opera Preview 2 that was preventing me from using it at work (proxy issue).
I think the more open Opera's development process becomes, the larger its comunity will become. Now if only we could get an open bug database...