Tim, All,
When is the planned moved from the current svn code a kde.org to gitorious planned to be complete? All of the traditional Arch build scripts that retrieve/update from svn will have to be re-written to use git if/when the move is complete. I'm fairly certain the PKGBUILD scripts can handle git as well as svn, but I'll need to look into the changes required.
The kde.org code seems to be updated and current. I'm still using it. Let us know if/when we need to change. The bandwidth and availability has been great with svn. I'm all for holding off on the svn->git move as long as possible and keeping focus on the 3.5.13 release uncomplicated by a host change :) I can conceivably take a month or so to iron out the move and have everyone update code retrieval parts of the individual distro build systems.
Just my .02...
As soon as I became aware of the SVN-->GIT move I halted it due to many of the same reasons you mentioned above. :-)
Right now it looks to occur sometime after 3.5.13/3.6.0. The main focus right now is supposed to be on bug fixing while I handle the TQt4 conversion.
Tim