I had been putting off some of my kinect related projects until things started to settle down with diamondback. 

Now that diamonback beta is released, I figured I'd finally give it a try. 

After a few initial hiccups with the "common" stack, "rosmake kinect" went off without a hitch! This included building lots of things, like PCL among others.

I'm excited to start playing around with this this weekend, and I wanted to say thanks and congrats to the ros developers that made it happen =) Without your tireless efforts, and amenability to bug reports, it would never have happened. 

Thanks again.

--Nick