Just so you know, SourceForge automatically makes nightly tarballs of all its projects. I was able to get geany's source during the downtime by downloading http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/geany-cvsroot.tar.bz2

The thing to remember is that gives you an actual CVS repository. You still have to do tar -jxvf geany-cvsroot.tar.bz2 mv geany geanycvs cvs -d /path/to/geanycvs co geany

You can then cd into geany/ and compile as usual.

Of course, this tarball is only updated nightly, so it'll be up to a day behind, but you can actually use this trick to get any project's CVS code without relying on the crappy anonymous CVS servers.

Kurt