We are looking about more people contributing to the development side in bugzilla or in the documentation, all skills are needed. Maybe it is not the first time you hear that call

As I can see, we have more people recently and I thank personally each of them, but we are just enough to work for patching bugs and not enough to bring you new features.
Your distro needs You and the guys who are currently working also.
You can follow bug here
http://wiki.contribs.org/Dashboard or here
http://bugs.contribs.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldto=Now&query_format=advanced&chfieldfrom=7d&order=Last%20Changed or you can subscribe to bugteam and contribteam mailling lists.
This is necessary to verify the bugs that a developer has submitted a patch, but you can also propose patches, sometime it is quite easy, all starts from a search on google, sometime it is harder...but any travel begins by a first step, so go on.
For that you don't need a cvs access even a build box, all can be done on a smeserver if needed, it is like that I started to learn (I don't work in IT, but I love SME)
Quite sure that if you ask questions, on devinfo, on IRC, by private email you will have answers.