>> I'll probably copy the instructions off the Wiki and place
>> them in a text
>> file called BUILDING or similar.
>>
>> Thoughts?  Comments?
>
> To create a tarball locally, do I need to do anything special other than
> remove the svn files and directories?

Nope.

>
> Past practice for KDE tarballs was tar.bz2. Is this going to be the case
> for 3.5.12?
>

Yes.

Tim