Quoting Colan Schwartz <colan@openject.com>:
The real problem here, at last for me (and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this position), is that I spend all day working with Subversion. When I occasionally get a chance to work on my modules on d.o., I have to go back to the documentation and re-learn how to use CVS.
CVS and SVN aren't that different in command structure. Really, I use SVN and CVS interchangeably without issue. CVS is still used by many. GIT is being considered by many FSF projects. There are other VCS so perhaps a command wrapper so that you don't have to remember which commands to use for which VCS.
Having said that, I believe that my modules have proper releases; it's just that it takes me longer to get them out the door. Not that I necessarily want to open that whole CVS/Subversion debate (or maybe I do), but it's just that if a lot of developers are using Subversion, they'd be much more comfortable getting d.o. modules released quicker if the site used it as well.
I don't know that and I guess you're making assumptions that you don't have facts to as well. It might make it easier to access for those whose proxy servers get in the way given a setup on port 80.
I realize that CVS is imtimately tied to the site, but I do feel that not having Subversion there hampers progress for a lot of folks.
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/4272 for correcting that. Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/