gavin maintains a git repo with a clone of the svn repo synced almost realtime.
he also maintains some feature branches and a merge of the aforementioned.
It would indeed be very nice if commits took place on git in the first place, i'm sure pull requests would flow.
But then again, git is scary when you're used to svn.
I once migrated a project i was working on with another dev from svn to git, i got loads of insults the first week, questions the second week, and the third week everything was going much smoother. This particular dev now has like 20 projects/forks on git