The KMess sourcecode has been migrated from CVS to subversion (SVN). (FYI: subversion is the software we use to store the in-development version of KMess). Subversion gives us some advantages over CVS. It's command line is easier to use, branches/tags are easier to mange, changes to many files - even moved files - are tracked properly with subversion. I actually hoped to migrate earlier, but I wanted to wait until 1.5-pre2 was released.
The CVS to SVN migration did took more time then I'd expected. The cvs2svn tool needs some help to convert things properly, and sourceforce's documentation leaves much ends open. And there was something I overlooked: the website documentation and forum howto's had to be updated as well... *oops*
An interesting side-effect of subversion are the statistics you can generate from it. If you like to see those statistics, download the repository first with: rsync -av rsync://kmess.svn.sourceforge.net/svn/kmess/ kmess-svnrepos. Then open it locally with kdesvn. The most simple statistic is the activity over the years. It's clearly visible that development slowed down during the 1.3 release, and basically stopped. I was also shocked to find out I'm responsable for ~1200 of the 1700 commits since 2004-07-12.
It should be noted I had to commit directories and ChangeLog entries separately.
While updating the website, I also improved the documentation about the coding standards. With the additional examples it easier to follow the proper styles now. 