Reading so many Project X moves to Git blogs in the past year I read "Subversion moving" and mentally though Git and then pondered why Subversion would not use

Reading so many Project X moves to Git blogs in the past year I read "Subversion moving" and mentally though Git and then pondered why Subversion would not use Subversion :) Anyway congrats on this mature piece of software having somewhere to go live for all of the users who still use it. "Even though I’ve become a Mercurial user myself, I can assure you that these other products aren’t going away anytime soon!" Correct me if I am wrong but the author of the blog was a main Subversion dev right?