All, I started a little experiment to move the incubator website from CMS to git. There's a few reasons I've looked at it. First, I've seen a lot of cases where people commit changes to the various control files (podlings.xml, {podling}.xml) without running the necessary CMS steps to publish the website. I've personally not seen any benefit to leveraging the CMS UI and the staging area. I would personally prefer to leverage git for source control over svn, its what people are using more actively these days.
We did some preliminary research. Since the CMS is calling build scrips via buildbot, its very easy to point a new buildbot config that can run the website via git. So I'm wondering, from the broader iPMC and the users of our website, is there any interest in moving, or is there a preference to stay on CMS and SVN? John