diff --git a/pep-0101.txt b/pep-0101.txt
index ebaad1f07..134b1eaa0 100644
--- a/pep-0101.txt
+++ b/pep-0101.txt
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ How to Make A Release
     - Once the branch is frozen, Fred Drake needs to create the HTML
       from the documentation.  He does this and uploads the file to
       www.python.org.  Then he tells Tim Peters where this file is.
-      This may generate some last minute changes on the branch.
+      This may generate some last minute changes on the branch.  Once
+      Fred is done, there can be no further checkins on the branch in
+      the Doc/ directory -- not even by the RM.
 
     - Tim Peters grabs the HTML and uses this to build the Windows
       installer.  Tim then creates a new "release" named X.YaZ on the
@@ -153,9 +155,17 @@ How to Make A Release
       % cd ~
       % cvs -d <cvsroot> export -rr22a3 -d Python-2.2a3 python/dist/src
 
+    - Remove the documentation sources from the export; these are only
+      useful to people who have LaTeX and possibly several other tools
+      installed (how many tools are required depends on the
+      documentation format you want to end up with).  These also add
+      substantially to the size of the resulting archive (almost a
+      megabyte for Python 2.2).
+      % rm -r Python-.2a3/Doc/
+
     - Generate the tarball.  Note that we're not using the `z' option
       on the tar command because 1) that's only supported by GNU tar
-      as far as we know; 2) we're going to max out the compression
+      as far as we know, and 2) we're going to max out the compression
       level, which isn't a supported option.
       % tar cf - Python-2.2a2 | gzip -9 > Python-2.2a2.tgz