There is nothing wrong with Subversion except for preference and difficulty in making branches. I disagree that Benson's topic is directly influenced by such a lower-rung choice as a version control system. The same discussion would be necessary if Apache were completely on Git; who can push directly? Who can't?
There's also nothing wrong with the patch-on-JIRA workflow, and you end up with something similar to the Linux kernel. The tool isn't the issue here, and I disagree with any attempt to reframe it that way. -- Jed Smith j...@jedsmith.org
