Hi!
Which brings to mind that there's some interest in distributed version control systems, which should be better for maintaining and publishing individual work branches than SVN.
Individual work branches always get lag and merge jam problems, that need quite some attention to resolve.
SVN's good at making release branches, but performing multiple merges like one needs to do on a work branch is a big hassle, and notoriously slow. I know some people are really excited about git, though there are a number of others popular ones out there.
People are also excited about Bazaar
Having something that's fairly usable on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X is a pretty strong requirement for us to start poking in that direction.
There's even VisualStudio plugin for Bazaar! :)