pier and seaside 3.0

Happy New Year to the list. I've been developing a site using vanilla seaside 3.0a5, and have belated released that there's much functionality in base Pier and the add-ons which would save me significant time. From what I can gather from a brief search of the list there is an early port to 3.0, though I've struggled to load it into my image. Is there a load script I can use for 3.0? Is it really sensible to try an early 3.0 port when I'm still struggling to get to grips with the basic concepts - would I be better off using 2.8 and revert my jQuery code to prototype/scriptaculous? Thanks Nick