According to SF.net's news page, they are finally considering implementing Subversion repositories. Here is the item:
*Subversion Service: * The research, analysis, and support gear-up needed to implement a Subversion service at SourceForge.net is now in progress. As with all SourceForge.net services, extensive analysis and testing must be performed to verify suitable levels of stability and scalability before a service can be rolled-out. We are expecting the initial phases of this effort to last several weeks, to be followed by the implementation of a testing environment which will be used for a live beta test by specific selected projects. Pending successful scalability testing, service details will be finalized and service will be offered to all projects. (Last updated: 2005-03-02 Pacific)
Anyone who is familiar with CVS, but has had an opportunity to use Subversion would never go back. Examples: (a)Try in CVS and SVN, renaming a directory with 100 files in it. No contest. (b) An SVN branch is not a tagging, but an actual branch of a directory tree, with the branch diff'd from the trunk. (c) Commits are 'atomic,' meaning that a commit is not applied if it fails during transfer, but only if it is handled correctly. Very sweet.
It would be nice if Inkscape were one of the "specific selected projects".
Bob