Projects are allowed to use Git instead of Subversion, and there's a workflow in place, as noted in the ticket. Many projects have moved, and many haven't. They seem fairly undogmatic in that aspect.

still i think you would expect the svn project would use svn :D otherwise it's a pretty treacherous admission of a codebase being legacy only

I originally thought the same thing, until I read through to the article.

Git is already supported by many Apache projects, though. The Apache Flex team did the move quite a while ago, so their primary repository is in Git.

This is what I thought as well. This seems like a really poor joke. A press release describing such a planned move that praised git and slammed subversion might have been funny. By an actual JIRA ticket is inappropriate.

Why is that inappropriate, out of curiosity?