A couple people asked about how portable or easy it will be to move themes from development to production in Community Server 2007. We’re doing a lot of work to ensure that they are as portable as possible for both scenarios (developer and designer). When using our WYSIWYG tools we’re supporting an XML format for exporting and importing theme settings, including files.

While it’s by no means complete below are some screen shots:

Import / Export options
These options are present both at the site and blog level.

Theme Import/Export file
We’re not publishing the file format externally yet because we’re not done. We won’t consider this format ‘locked’ until CS 2007 ships.