newbie KDevelop coder questions

[Hendrik Kueck]

Hi,
after using KDevelop for a bit now (and liking it alot) and after filing 
quite a few bug reports, I decided to try to get a tiny bit involved and 
started looking into the KDevelop source and started to try making my 
first small change.

So first question: Is the described procedure on the web-page still the 
way to go? That is, make some changes, produce patch files and post them 
here. Or is there a better place / way to send patches instead of 
spamming everybody on this list? I guess I could just post a link to the 
files or something like that.

My second question: Can I start the version of KDevelop that I am making 
changes to without installing it?
And if not, i guess the best way to keep the versions used as subject 
and object in development apart is to use ./configure with --prefix and 
then start it after the KDEDIRS / kbuildsycoca procedure ?

Cheers,
Hendrik