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@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ system assumes that you have the following tools available:
     * git
     * wget
 
+The skel/ directory contains the basic layout of documentation and
+other support files, other components are then populated into to
+the target directory via the make command above.
+
+To create a candidate release tarball, try "make release VERSION=yyyy.mm".
+