Because directories can not be deleted, it's evergrowing and now a mess. Therefore I'd say after this process, ask Kjartan or Dries to
I thought of http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/ and http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/
I, for myself, love ViewCVS. However, the evergrowing directory list is a problem.
So let me correct myself: Because directories can not be deleted, it's evergrowing and now ViewCVS is a mess.
Because you use a crappy user interface it should not affect how the previously developed modules are kept or not. If you would not like to see empty folders in ViewCVS, it is a ViewCVS feature reuquest, it should not mean that the drupal CVS server should not have the old contrib modules kept in the Attic. One of the points of version control is that you can revive long deleted files, if need be. Goba