Trouble is, their existing developers and projects seem to be doing fine with SVN. Don't forget those are the most important people, the workhorses you already have- not the flighty young birds you hope to one day trap.
Sure, there is always the future to think about, but the future isn't happening a week from now. They have time to watch Git grow and wait until the time is right.
Except that the existing developers aren't all doing fine with SVN. As referenced in the post, both CouchDB and PhoneGap (existing "workhorse" Apache projects!) prefer to use git, but have met with strong opposition from the ASF.
The time to allow for Git usage is already here. It's not just pie in the sky forecasting -- existing projects are being held back by bureaucracy.
>Trouble is, their existing developers and projects seem to be doing fine with SVN.
This statement has little meaning. If they were still on SCCS and had been using it for years I'm sure they would "do just fine" with it. But if they move to something modern they could do even better.
Sure, there is always the future to think about, but the future isn't happening a week from now. They have time to watch Git grow and wait until the time is right.