From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:20:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> I think Felipe is using the argument that perl is declining to answer
> the question "why didn't you write git-related in perl instead?";
> that's it.

A question which nobody asked, I presume?

I think we heard enough from packaging folks that a new dependency
is unwelcome.  Also we heard from no regular/high-value reviewers
that they feel comfortable reviewing additions in Ruby.

So at least for now, the conclusion is to take approach #1, i.e.
somebody who finds "related" a good addition rewrites it in Perl to
promote it out of contrib/ once the design issues settle (of course
it is still a possibility that no such volunteer appears).