On the Fedora front:
FC3test2 is out (give it a try) and it's not too shabby.
There's a bugweek possibly coming up next week - everyone who's anyone in Fedora working to sort through the bugs. More to come later.
No, external CVS for Fedora has not been forgotten. Work is underway (and on Red Hat's side, we just underwent a sizeable internal change that is necessary to support it).
On the everything-else front: