Hallo Russell !
I really don't intend to start a SCM war here, but has the discussion of switching to using svn on sourceforge instead of cvs ever come up before?
This was discussed many many times before and at the pd-convention it was decided to switch to SVN. So yes, this will be done AFAIR.
BTW: very nice introduction - the pd-project would need such people as you ;) !
LG Georg