Hi,
Sure, but what would the point be? It's no problem to remove the old development repository once it becomes the stable release and then fork a new development branch. It's just the way Pike has choosen to do things.
Yes, would be a good thing.
It is better to document this policy instead of inventing bad fixes. I think David was not aware of this practise and thus his conclusion that the repository was broken. If he had known that it's now called 7.7, he would have checked that out instead.
Yes. But why not creating new CVS branches for each stable release ?
/ David Gourdelier